Drove from Los Angles to Las Vegas today, and I'll be darned if it didn't
make it just fine! I wonder, though, if I might be better off not knowing my
oil temperature. In sunny but mild LA, I never got the thing to read above
200degF/95degC of so, even diving full-bore, 80mph up short but fairly steep
grades; But today driving out of Baker, CA in 109 degree heat up that long,
long grade I was seeing oil temps a hair over the 220F/105C. Oil pressure
was hovering around 20psi though, so no problem there I reckon. The oil temp
made me twitchy of course, but only because the only thing I know is that
it's "higher than it's ever been before". So long as I'm seeing good oil
pressure, is temperature not a big deal? Is there a temperature one should
stay under? If all I had was the water temp gauge and oil blinkenlight, I
would never have known any of this. I'm I suffering paranoia because I know
too much?

-- 
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"