Thanks for the numbers!  From my post earlier this summer related to the
road between Cowichan Village & Duncan:

*...today fully warm on flat stretch of highway 110 km / 68.4 mph at 4000
rpm - oil at around 230 Fahrenheit and oil pressure at 39 psi. Coolant temp
showing below the light.  *

On start up - my oil pressure is 65 psi and then drops to 19 psi when I
reach 215 to 220 F / 100 to 105C.  Like you - I have a VDO temp gauge and
digital pressure gauge from Intellitronix.  The temp sender is ported on
the oil pressure relief plug.

Nice that your motor seems to be running cooler.  I plan to drive to
Whistler in a couple of weeks and take the van off road up there - I am
hoping to see some lower oil temps compared to the summer as well.

Bruce

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:16 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> 
> VDO gauges
>
> Now remember my engine is quite old. I get 70 or so pounds oil pressure at
> start. I barely pass the press test when engine hot.
>
> That being said. On this trip my oil temps, mostly, stayed below 100C even
> during some steep climbs in first and g gear. At those time rad fan low
> speed was on.
>
> My oil press was about or above 30 psi during climbs. At idle after such a
> climb, rad fan still on, oil pressure was between 15-20 psi.
>
> There was one climb, first night , that I couldn’t climb in first, had to
> be g gear. Had a bit of a ditch across it too, so slow ease in and out.
> Normally, when I do that kind of climb, oil temps really go up. And
> pressure down. But this time it was fine. I’m going to attribute this to
> cooler ambient. 20C instead of 30C temps. But , again a but, I have the gut
> feeling the engine was running cooler. The only thing I really did to
> engine this summer when engine out, that could possibly be a reason, was
> getting all of my chronic exhaust leaks fixed.
>
> Ok, back to the Hwy. Bruce, I can’t recall the temps and pressures you
> recorded on road from cowichan village to Duncan. I was flat out, 100-110
> kph. At that sustained speed the oil temp just nudged over 100. Maybe 105.
> Oil pressure at that speed was 30 psi. As expected oil temps dropped to
> under 100C when I was forced to slow down to 80kph .
>
> Alistair
>
> On Aug 31, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Cool - what make are the gauges and what readings were you getting?
>
> BT
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:08 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> I do have oil temp and pressure…
>>
>> And was noting both during trip, especially on way out along cow lake Hwy
>> towards Duncan…
>>
>> Like you did :-)
>>
>> Ab
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2021, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Welcome back Alistair - good to hear your trip went well and the van
>> purred like a spoiled cat.  BTW - do you have an oil temp gauge?
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 7:10 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Just to let you folk know, no other issues with van after that hose
>>> incident. About 550km , 2/3 of that logging road. Lots of rough roads and
>>> van ran like a champ. I’ll say more later, but I don’t think van has ran
>>> this well for quite a while. Ambient temps were cool, but still, I think my
>>> oil temps were lower by 5-10C and coolant temps were good…. Low speed fan
>>> came on when needed, temp dropped on long declines… etc etc. All good.
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>
>>