[s-cars] Multi Function Temp Sensor or Thermostat?

[Mark Strangways]

I wish that excuse could be used as a defense in court.
"Really your honor the only reason I was doing 130 in a 55 zones was to burn 
off the impurities in my oil".
Think it would work... anyone, Bueller... Pizzo :-)

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Powell" <powellb at gmail.com>
To: "Rich Beebe" <rich at beebecomm.com>
Cc: <manuelsanchez at starpower.net>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Multi Function Temp Sensor or Thermostat?


> Rich,
>
> If you have been running the car (or the previous owner) like this for
> awhile, you should change the oil when you do the t-stat. If the oil
> never gets to operating temp, water will condense and remain in the
> oil and form an acid. This isn't what you want. Drain the oil out
> completely, put in a good synthetic oil. With the new thermostat if
> the engine is now getting to the proper temperature, do an
> "Eye-talian" lube job: take it out for a good hour of hard,
> high-revving highway driving to burn off any water and carbon buildups
> from running cold oil.
>
> Hey, we always can use a good excuse to flog the car on the open
> highway, but, you just need to cruise at 4k RPM or so for a while to
> get rid of that stuff.
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:10:04 -0500, Rich Beebe <rich at beebecomm.com> wrote:
>> well, since my oil temp gauge never seems to move at all, i'd
>> say a new t-stat is in order. i'm glad this post came up, as i
>> was never comfortable with the idea that the gauge should read
>> (normally) where it was. thanks very much for the insight.
>>
>> rich
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Brian
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