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Old Jul 26, 2014 | 05:33 PM
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What oil temps should I be seeing under normal and hard driving?
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Old Jul 27, 2014 | 06:39 PM
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depends on how hard you are driving it depends on how hot it gets. if you are seeing over 115-120 then you need a oil cooler.
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Old Jul 27, 2014 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by LHD220Turbo
depends on how hard you are driving it depends on how hot it gets. if you are seeing over 115-120 then you need a oil cooler.
All ready have a cooler fitted but Im not sure if the oil is hot enough, its around 50 degs just driving normal.
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Old Jul 27, 2014 | 09:22 PM
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Your oil needs to get up in the high 80 - 90's to burn off condensation and moisture from the oil. If it's always in the 50's it's being over cooled I'd remove the cooler
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Old Jul 27, 2014 | 09:22 PM
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mine runs about 80-90deg during normal driving, 105-110deg giving it some stick i have had temps above that but that was on a very hot day when i was haveing trouble with my fans
50deg is a little low mate, i'd take the cooler off or fit a oil thermostat then see what temp its running at.
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Old Jul 28, 2014 | 06:50 PM
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Are you sure that reading is accurate? Is this in the current hot weather?
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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 12:33 PM
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as above mate, fit an oil stat

oil needs to be a certain temp to get the correct protection, if the reading is correct, the oil temp is too low
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