Oil cooler cold during operation - cold during air lock
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Oil cooler cold during operation - cold during air lock
Hi there guys, new to the forum - Hello - My name is Dave, im running a rebuilt TVR 5.0 in a land rover 90 - stage 4 heads - hi rev lifters, standard 3.5 rad with 16 bar oil coler on sandwich plate with inbuilt thermostat (
mocal), on edelbrock 600 carb (needing tuning). Have a querie - only just rebuilt and been taking it for a few short test runs, running nicely to temperature exept on 2 occasions where an air lock occured needing bleeding (then temperature fine). During this period the oill cooler and hose have felt very cool, nothing like engine temperature (oil cooler hoses much cooler than adjacent oil filter), even during the air locks when the temperature gauge almost went into the red, this was the case - Is there a problem with my oil cooler?? Oil pressure is fine, during first start up after fitting the oil cooler there was a couple of seconds before pressure built up (thought that was the cooler bleeding through - it was full of oil). The near overheats during air lock lasted less than 5 minutes. Shouldn't the oil cooler at least feel as warm as the engine? Or am i just showing my inexperience??
Running 80 degree thermostat on coolant side - requested from oil cooler vendor (ebay) 80 degree oil thermostat (i believe - nil to confirm on thermostat plate). What do you think guys???
mocal), on edelbrock 600 carb (needing tuning). Have a querie - only just rebuilt and been taking it for a few short test runs, running nicely to temperature exept on 2 occasions where an air lock occured needing bleeding (then temperature fine). During this period the oill cooler and hose have felt very cool, nothing like engine temperature (oil cooler hoses much cooler than adjacent oil filter), even during the air locks when the temperature gauge almost went into the red, this was the case - Is there a problem with my oil cooler?? Oil pressure is fine, during first start up after fitting the oil cooler there was a couple of seconds before pressure built up (thought that was the cooler bleeding through - it was full of oil). The near overheats during air lock lasted less than 5 minutes. Shouldn't the oil cooler at least feel as warm as the engine? Or am i just showing my inexperience??
Running 80 degree thermostat on coolant side - requested from oil cooler vendor (ebay) 80 degree oil thermostat (i believe - nil to confirm on thermostat plate). What do you think guys???
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Plenty of air around it in the 90 and a big hole in the front to cool the sump. So a short run shouldn't really open the stat?
Oil is normally slower than the water, as water is wrapped around the hot bits. But there is quite a difference between nicely warmed up oil and 80, which will need some work to achieve
Oil is normally slower than the water, as water is wrapped around the hot bits. But there is quite a difference between nicely warmed up oil and 80, which will need some work to achieve
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