How hot should it be?

[Yanayaya]

I'm sitting in the Monaro idling away just fine when I could smell like burning, it's very faint but it's there. Temp read out is totally normal, fans going on and off etc but when I open the bonnet to check I c ant touch anything not even the wings every is red hot like you could fry and egg. Is that normal?

This is the temp read out whilst sitting still for about 25mins and I can smell light burning or something along those lines:



This is a new development so I'm not sure what's going on.

[Yanayaya]

Thanks for the info guys, I've never checked the temperature before nor would I until i got that whiff of something burning. As the evening went on the smell got less and less and it could be something as simple as something sticking to splashing onto the exhaust whilst driving that caused it.

That said I'm going to be checking everything once I am home from work, I never realised the wings got as hot as that but given where the manifolds are it's to be expected I guess I just didn't think they got THAT hot ha ha.

I'll give all the hoses a check and the radiator area and also check the oil although I topped that up the other week but it hadn't actually lost that much at all. Her service is next month.