[T3] 73 T-3 oil temp?

Keith Park topnotch at nycap.rr.com
Sat Sep 18 14:49:05 PDT 2021


Yes, the gauges need to be read dead center for accuracy so angling them helps, otherwise the
Caravanner behind you makes comments about it at dinner.

😊

Keith


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From: type3-vwtype3.org <type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org> On Behalf Of William Jahn
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 4:40 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] 73 T-3 oil temp?

I drove it again today, yet it's only 75F . I did notice one thing. I have the gauges mounted more to the right of the dash center in one of those VDO rubber 3 gauge mounts. I  Made a thick plastic plate so I could place the rubber gauge mount on an angle as much as I could . The end of the gauge mount is near the left side of the glove box door .

 Point is if I look at the gauges dead center , for instance the temp gauge from the driver's seat reads 180F yet if I look dead center it's between the 120 and 180 mark. So the just below 220 on the hot day was probably closer to 200. That does not mean it was not running hot because the oil light was coming on and the gauges are not 100 % accurate either.

 I want to see if I can angle the panel more. It was the only spot I could mount it , doesn't mean I can't improve it a bit. maybe.

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 6:58 AM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2021 at 9:52, William Jahn wrote:
>
> > I was stuck in traffic barely moving for over an hour and the oil 
> > temp read just under 220 F the oil light would go on at idle , it 
> > was 94 F air temp . If I put the auto trans in neutral the oil light 
> > would go out . I checked the oil level later and was down 1/2 quart 
> > . Once I was able to start moving the oil temps dropped .
>
> Given your situation, hot day, hot pavement, stop & go traffic 
> (surrounded by other cars also shedding their excess engine heat, as 
> well as the heat from their ACs) I don't see anything particularly 
> unusual about what you observed. Your 220 F indicated temperature is 
> probably not unusual for those conditions, but it can be informative 
> to test your temp sensor in boiling water (212 F) to see how good the 
> calibration is.
>
> Putting the AT into N is the right thing to do: It reduces the load on 
> the engine which means less waste heat to get rid of, plus it lets the 
> idle speed increase a bit, providing a bit more cooling and a bit more 
> oil pumped thru the engine and oil cooler. It's a zero effort 
> solution.
>
> Once you get moving, there's no longer stagnant hot exhaust air 
> trapped under the car, plus there's turbulence that enhances the 
> cooling of the underside of the engine.
>
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