Thanks for the oil temp chart Dan, and yes, i agree that getting the oil up to a certain temp before putting a load on it is very desirable. The roller bearings in the air cooled motors might have a higher degree of tolerances when going through the pretty big temperature swings in an air cooled motor. The only vehicle I have owned with an air cooled roller bearing engine was the Honda 600 Sedan, 600cc twin. Amazing how that little engine could be abused and still propel that tin box to almost 80mph for long periods. I did have a roller bearing VW engine that was built for me that had the oil cooler removed from the fan shroud so it was not dumping hot air onto the cylinders. Very good little engine. The point being is that once you cool the oil don’t dump the hot air back onto the engine. If there was a way to cool the oil in the tank, without forcing the engine circulation oil through it, so the tank oil was monitored by a separate circuit and then the tank oil was put through a cooler then it would have its own fail safe. Tank oil would always have the stock cooling but when needed extra cooling could be engaged. Any thoughts?
BTW, nice Willys!
Last edited by LightSpeed; 25/02/1904:01 PM.
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