Oil Temps?

[Will Ng]

Wow! That's hot!
I seem to be in Mike's boat.

My type-$$ ('90 200q) oil temp gauge seems to stay at the 1st line above
60C, which I deduced to be 95C. No matter if it's steady 70-80 mph cruising
in 80-90F ambient temp, or sitting in stop-n-go traffic. No matter what, it
never rises above the 2nd line. In the winter it runs below it...barely
above 60C.
I'm running Castrol dino 20w-50, tried Mobil-1 but leaked out of my old
valve cover gasket.
Water temps are at the bold line under the 1/2 way mark when cruising, and
a tick over 1/2 in traffic. Oil pressure is 4-5 bar.

I always suspected that it is too low. I guess it's new oil temp sender
time. :-\
Or the oil cooler thermostat is stuck wide open.

What are other type-44 turbo owners running at?

thanks,
Will


At 12:01 PM 7/3/2002 +0000, Mike Del Tergo wrote:
>>The coupe settles at 130 when run in third at red line, the 90 will
>>creep up on long highway drives.
>>
>>the 5kt would go to 150C and settle there when the turbo was glowing.
>>>Nice information to have... the sender goes in the bottom of the oil
>>pump, btw.
>
>Huw,
>did your early 5KT have an oil cooler?  Assume the CGT doesn't?  My temp
>number was low I thought, about 70C at 85F ambient (steady 80MPH.)  I got
>the locale for the sender no problem, most important to reinstall the
>plug,spring, and valve in the correct order, DOH!  pretty glad I have 2 oil
>pressure warnings on the UrQ, and a few Bentleys.
>Mike
>
>
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'90 Audi 200 quattro
'89 Honda CRX Si
'91 Eagle Talon TSi AWD
'90 Honda VFR750F