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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: colintandy on October 19, 2005, 14:16:57

Title: oil temp
Post by: colintandy 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

Title: oil temp
Post by: Range Rover Blues 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.

Title: oil temp
Post by: hobbit 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?

Title: oil temp
Post by: Range Rover Blues 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.

Wish I could find some textbooks, then I could give yo a smart-arsed answer.