<VV> Oil temperature?

hugo at aruncoaches.co.uk hugo at aruncoaches.co.uk
Tue Oct 24 16:48:35 EDT 2017


Good question - I haven't looked. Not had the car long - just finding 
my way around it - runs well though.


On 2017-10-24 13:35, Bryan Blackwell wrote:
> One thing not mentioned - is your oil cooler clean and the cover in
> place?  Which one do you have?  Side shrouds?
>
> --Bryan
>
>> On Oct 22, 2017, at 9:34 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs 
>> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>>
>> One of my Corvairs has an oil temperature gauge. On a long-ish trip 
>> at about 70-75mph on a hot Florida day, it gradually crept up towards 
>> 250 degrees. That's seems to me to be getting uncomfortably hot - does 
>> anybody know what a safe operating temperature is for engine oil?



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