Chris My experience is that a cylinder head temp guage only moves up when you're doing something dumb, that you already know you shouldn't do, like lugging up a hill. Oil temp is the one that I'd get and watch, as well as oil pressure. Those two saved me a few times when my oil pressure relief valve stuck. You really can overheat the oil pretty easily, and at least if you know that's what's happening you can slow down and downshift Raymond On 6/8/06, chris <vanagon@frontleftspeakerposse.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately while taking a break over the memorial day weekend, then > taking a few weeks to get resubscribed to the vanagon list, my motor das > kaput. > > So im purchasing a rebuilt longblock and the local Mechanic is > removing/installing for me. > > Is this a good time to also ______ ? > > Im throwing around the usual suspects, external oil cooler, perhaps some > guages to monitor my new rebuild? > > > It isn't that warm here on the northern california coast, so I dont know > that an oil cooler would be really worth it, but perhaps a CHT guage > from Dakota Digital? > > any tips, suggestions or misc tomfoolery welcomed. > > cr > |
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