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« on: October 19, 2005, 14:16:57 »
fitted a digital  diesel oil temp gauge today to cab its wired to a replacement oil dip stick which has the reader right at the sump where its needed any body know what sort of max temps i should be looking for it reads farenheight and celcius and i can set to the max temp and after that an alarm will trigger which then gives a visual signal on the display was given this ages ago so i dont know to much about it but it seeems to work fine just would like to know the oil temp ranges for a 200tdi disco under load ect.. would be great help if anyone knows

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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2005, 01:10:56 »
An engineer once told me "anything less then 130 celcius and it's too thick".  As he worked on designing the Valencia engine I have no reason to doubt his advice.
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2005, 14:15:15 »
actually with the rad cooling water and oil, I should imagine the temp would be pretty much the same?
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2005, 21:12:08 »
Quote from: "hobbit"
actually with the rad cooling water and oil, I should imagine the temp would be pretty much the same?


But then you're cooling it with something that's about 100 celcius anyway.

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