Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:34:57 -0700
Reply-To: Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
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From: Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
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Mr. Squirrel, your stock temp gauge will measure your water temp which is of
course seperate. The oil temp gauge as found on early 80's etc, rabbit GTI's
measured how hot your oil was getting, which in my mind is more critical to
the aircoolers, not your waterboxer, although I'm sure more monitoring of
engines in all aspects is gooder. :-) I also had one of these in my hopped
up way crazy bug, because it was depending on oil for cooling, so an oil
temp gauge was cool. You can end up going nucking futs on gauges, with head
temps, oil temps, water temps, pressure, etc etc, but if your engine is in
good nick, and you aren't running dual 48IDA webers too lean I think you're
going to be fine with just the oil pressure gauge. Get a VDO but I'm not
sure they make a digital one. If not, just learn the spots on it's dial
where it seems "normal" and if it deviates from there, assume something is
up. :-)
Courtney
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
> Sounds like a plan.
>
> Okay, ignorance speaking here: does an oil temp gauge provide
> more/better/other information than the stock temp gauge? Responds more
> quickly to heating, or something like that?
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 14:05 -0700, Don Hanson wrote:
>
>> VW vendors sell a VDO gauge for pressure that has a small can like
>> sender with two electrical 'poles'...one for your existing system...the
>> warning light..and one to run the aftermarket gauge.
>>
>> I don't know about the Waterboxer motor but on my inline VW motor I put
>> it
>> onto the sender down at the oil filter flange and it works fine. You
>> will
>> have to run a wire from back to front and what I did was use some
>> 4-strand
>> trailer wiring wire...I used one strand to get the pressure sender
>> signal,
>> one for my Oil temp sender and I have two left over for any other uses
>> that
>> come later on.
>>
>> Don Hanson
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM, courtney hook <courtneyhook@shaw.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Mr Squirrel,
>> > Do yourself a favor and buy a good quality one that is electric, NOT
>> > mechanical. What a nightmare running the capillary tubing for
>> > mechanical
>> > gauges, not to mention the lag time. I used to run a digital oil
>> > pressure
>> > gauge in my HP 2276cc Bug, which was very accurate and looked good too.
>> > Nowadays you can get them from just about any big gauge manuf. Just
>> > remember
>> > that the big ticket with these is consistency between readings. It's
>> > good to
>> > know what the gauge reads as an average of what you expect to be
>> > normal; not
>> > necessarily within 2 lbs. of actual pressure. If it varies markedly
>> > from
>> > what you expect to usually see, THEN you know something is up. Mine
>> > used to
>> > blink like crazy if the pressure dropped below 20psi.
>> > Courtney
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>> > Date: Friday, April 8, 2011 1:09 pm
>> > Subject: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
>> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> >
>> > > ...I might as well look into rigging an oil pressure gauge.
>> > > Anyone got a
>> > > handy kit or anything?
>> >
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