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Offline viperjsy

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oil temp
« on: 12 June 2014, 15:55 »
hi is this oil temp to high or is it ok

Offline Bandit127

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Re: oil temp
« Reply #1 on: 12 June 2014, 17:32 »
Nope. High enough to boil off water vapour and dissolved volatiles but nowhere near enough to start worrying about the oil.

Personally, I would be perfectly happy up to 130°.

The HTHS test done on engine oils is done at 150°C.

However, keep your oil topped up. The same amount of heat comes out of the engine. The same proportion of that goes in to the oil. So a lower volume of oil containing the same amount of heat will be at a higher temperature.

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Re: oil temp
« Reply #2 on: 12 June 2014, 17:44 »
thank you

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Re: oil temp
« Reply #3 on: 13 June 2014, 00:07 »
Around 100 is fine :smiley:

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Re: oil temp
« Reply #4 on: 14 June 2014, 11:40 »
thank you all for your help