On 5/14/06, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

I drive to Vegas and back to SF all the time and hardly even pay attention
to my temp gauge. I am generally more concerned with my brains temperature
than my Doka. Never misses a beat. Got get myself AC. Last trip was 16 hours
round trip LA to SF in one day.

-- 
BenT