[urq] Re : Oil temperature sender

[LAR Fido]

Hi Keith,
Oil temps are always a bit higher than water temp in my car. unless you stuck the oil cooler in a snowbank... which arrives often on the ice track.

I'll find you the correct sender for the oil temp gauge when i'll be in front of my ETKA.

Louis-Alain

Some time ago I replaced my diff lock panel with the three dial VDO pod panel from a coupe. I retained the oil pressure gauge and the oil temperature gauge but used an air fuel meter instead of the volt meter.
The oil pressure gauge works fine - slams over to 5bar when cold but falls back to a more realistic 3 bar when warmed up.
The air fuel gauge works fine too but the oil temperature gauge bothers me. The sender remains the same - ie it is the same one that fed the 170*C led bar graph in the diff lock panel. The feed to the gauge comes from the wire that used to feel the led graph.
The VDO gauge has a 60-170*C range.
The concern is that the gauge hardly shows any temperature even when the water temp is up to normal (normal for this car is just under mid way on the gauge)
My question is: Does the old diff lock panel have any whizzy circuitry in it that might alter the signal to the led bar graph which would mean that using existing sender is not compatible with the analog gauge of the same range? If so, I guess a new sender that is definitely right for the gauge would be what I need.
Just what is "normal" oil temperature on a WR (or equivilent) quattro? Is a low reading of 80 or so degrees normal? Perhaps my 5 row, re-cored rad (and no aux rad) keeps everything really cool?
Any thoughts gratefully received.
Many thanks

Keith

'87 WR
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