Dennis, why do you remove the stock oil cooler?    mcneely

---- Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> There are two things you could do. Drive slower and lower your oil level.
> Those oil temps are common for an overfilled engine. The top mark is not the
> full mark. It is the maximum do not exceed no matter what mark. At oil and
> filter change time use only 4.5 quarts. After running your engine to fill
> the filter check the level and make a new mark on the stick as your full
> mark. This alone may help by 10-20 degrees.
>
> After that a well-designed oil cooler system will keep the oil temperature
> around 210. I use a 16 plate flat style cooler mounted in front of the
> radiator. You will need a thermostat with this size-style cooler. I prefer
> the in line 4 port units to the coolers in the adapter. I also remove the
> stock cooler and blank off the hoses. This set up has worked well on many
> vans I have done.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Robert Clemmer
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 4:17 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Oil Temperature??
>
> I have a 91 2.1 WBX that just turned 300K miles on this past trip to FL.
> The oil pressure is fine until the oil temperatures start to go on the north
> side of 220 then it starts dropping proportionately with oil temperature.
> Oil temperature starts climbing proportionately with outside air temperature
> when the temperatures are above 85.  When it is 95 or higher outside my oil
> temps can go 240-250 and pressure will drop to 30 psi at 4000 rpm.
>
>
>
> Those of you have that have installed external oil coolers, how effective
> have they been?  What kind of temperature drop can I reasonably expect if I
> decide to install an external cooler when I pull this engine to "freshen it
> up"?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your comments, BobC

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David McNeely