On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, westydriver wrote:

> my air  cooled will put the oil temp needle all the way over on the
> high passes.  30 in second in my poor little 82westy.  in the spring i
> am redoing the oil cooler with a blower fan and possibly a mister.  a
> little thing that a lot of WC people dont think about is that their oil
> is going way up in temps as  well.

Hmm...The oil and the water are both going through the hottest part of the
engine at some point (the head), and there's an oil-to-water oil cooler.
I'd expect the oil temperature to stay pretty close to the water
temperature.  I'm well aware that conventional wisdom can be wrong in
these sorts of situations, though -- anyone instrumented both and have
some answers?

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