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I now have another question. Since I found out that I'm
measuring water temperature twice, and not measuring oil temperature at all, now
I have another issue. I getting about a 20 degree difference between the two
coolant temps.
The way you measured the temps is the way it should be, as long as the
water is flowing well. The water leaves the engine at the thermostat
housing, so it has picked up all the heat it can from the engine. That
will be the hottest point. The water then goes to the radiators,
cools off, and comes back to the engine. It then goes through about half
the engine to get to the point where the other sensor is located. It
should be cooler here, than it will be when it makes it through the other
half of the engine to get to the thermostat housing. Ed must have a wacky
gauge :-)
For water, the standard is
to measure it as it leaves the engine, which is the hottest point. I
would think that's what you'd want to do with the oil as well,
but unfortunately, there's no practical way to do that. The oil drips
back to the pan from different places, and you can't measure that return
flow directly. You can measure the pan temp, as I did originally, but it's
not the best reading, since there isn't really a constant flow of oil past the
sensor. I suspect that measuring the oil as it returns to the
engine was selected as the next logical point. I have the pan temp hooked
up as an Aux temp on the EM-2, but I can't say I've looked at it yet.
Maybe when Tracy gets around to that data logging... :-)
Cheers,
Rusty (better to be
covered in aluminum than
fiberglass)
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