[Vwdiesel] Synthetic Oil
LBaird119 at aol.com
LBaird119 at aol.com
Tue Oct 6 08:15:58 PDT 2009
In a message dated 10/6/2009 2:22:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
toensing at wildblue.net writes:
> This also happened to my '85 Mazda 626 diesel 100 miles east of Las Vegas
> when the temperature gage showed it was warm but not overheating. This is
> why I like to add an extra water temperature gage
That's the problem with most (all?) coolant temp gauges. If you
lose coolant and don't happen to see the gauge going up for the
couple of minutes the temps are able to register, then the temp
drops back dow as it conducts heat ONLY from the hot surroundings
since there's not scalding coolant flowing past it as your engine cooks.
I'd sat an oil temp gauge would be a good second gauge rather than
a redundant coolant temp gauge for that specific reason. YMMV
Loren
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