110C is nothing for oil... if you are really worried about it, run
Synthetic.  I have seen 145C on my TDI before I added an external air cooled
oil cooler.  That is getting too warm.  Now, with most driving it stays
around the oil temperature (as I have retained my water cooled "regulator")
and when I really rally it, it will go to 105 to 110C.  Nothing to worry
about at all.

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Bange
Sent: May 14, 2006 17:50
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: maybe too much information is worse...

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?

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John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"