From experience the air cooled engines need head temperature monitoring more
than oil temperature. Oil temperature rise from excessive load can be too
far after the fact that the valves started to burn and the seats are getting
ready to fall out of the heads or even that the pistons started to melt.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:29 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: if that Oil Press thing is about an air-cooled engine ..

Then my bad .
because with an air-cooled engine you wouldn't really have a way to know oil
temp ...
unless with a gauge ..
or with an IR temp gun ..
so for an air-cooled engine ..yes, an oil temp gauge would help a lot, there
not being any temperature indication in the cockpit on air-cooled VW engines
, none of any kind.

Now those air-cooled engines ..they DO need an oil temp gauge !