On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 23:00 -0700, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

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> who cares where in the engine the oil picks up heat the most..which exact
> spots or places..
> all that matters is it picks up heat from the engine ..
> as it should.

Just trying to picture the process whereby the oil going out to the temp
sender on the external oil cooler shows an increase in temp that the
coolant temp gauge does not. Hey -- a fellow's got to have something to
wonder about when looking at his Very First Oil Temp Gauge on a drive!

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> Next you'll be having an EGT gauge and wondering about that temp. ..

I wonder about everything. How do tire sizes work? Is it possible that,
as I have read, the Vanagon is heavier at the front tires than the rear
when the rear has these great big heavy metal things in it? Why does it
hurt when I pee?

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>
> hey ! ..you could be a thermodynamics engineer/geek !

I am a geek, that's for sure.

>
> glad you are having so much fun with your vanagon !

Thanks! Glad you, and others, are around to answer my idle questions!

-- RJS

Sent from my idle question.

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Watching Oil Temp (long, as usual)
>
>
> > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 13:14 -0400, Edward Maglott wrote:
> >
> >> I'm pretty sure the coolant flows through the heads and that is where it
> >> picks up most of the engine heat.
> >
> >
> > Oh -- okay. The only heads I've ever held were from an aircooled. They
> > had no plumbing for coolant.
> >
> > So on the waterboxer, where is the oil picking up the extra heat that
> > shows on the oil temp gauge but not the coolant gauge when the engine is
> > under demand?
> >
> > -- RJS
> >
> > sent from my old aircooled heads
>