oil temp at 240-250! and water temp as high as 230
#1
oil temp at 240-250! and water temp as high as 230
ok guys so i just replaced my water pump and thermostat an my oil temp is now going way to high for my comfort ( I've seen as high as 254) when i'm driving considering before i did the water pump and t stat the oil temp would only get up to maybe as high as 217.
Any suggestions or guesses and what could be wrong here? Could it be the oil temp sensor or something more serious.
Yes i burp the coolant system when i installed the water pump and no there is not a coolant leak so i don't think it could be those.
Any suggestions or guesses and what could be wrong here? Could it be the oil temp sensor or something more serious.
Yes i burp the coolant system when i installed the water pump and no there is not a coolant leak so i don't think it could be those.
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There was a thread a couple spots down where a guy changed the ground on the oil temp sensor... Do that.
As far as the coolant goes, is that within normal limits now? Or was that 230° after the pump and thermo change? Unless the coolant is getting that high (240-250s) I don't think I'd worry too much. The oil temp is going to be somewhat close to the coolant temps at normal op temps. As I recall on a long road trip my oil was 220-230 all day in the summer and coolant was around 210-220. Pretty standard in my opinion. Both fluids are running through the same block so i would not really expect to see a huge temp difference.
As far as the coolant goes, is that within normal limits now? Or was that 230° after the pump and thermo change? Unless the coolant is getting that high (240-250s) I don't think I'd worry too much. The oil temp is going to be somewhat close to the coolant temps at normal op temps. As I recall on a long road trip my oil was 220-230 all day in the summer and coolant was around 210-220. Pretty standard in my opinion. Both fluids are running through the same block so i would not really expect to see a huge temp difference.
Last edited by ryridesmotox; 06-12-2014 at 10:10 AM.
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Just bought an '04 V and I also have higher temps than I would like.
So these cars are bad about the oil temp sensor needing a new ground?
I have an aluminum aftermarket radiator and I'm tracking down this issue.
The car does smell ridiculously rich even for the 23x/24x cam, so it could possibly be an awful tune. Or it wasn't tuned at all
230 is operating oil temp. It will alarm at 300 deg.
I cut the ground wire off my temp sensor and ran a separate lead from the sensor to the hood strut ground bolt, that fixed my fluctuation and bad reading problems.
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230 is normal oil temp?? idk bout that... mine and my friends V both average 200-212 for oil temp around town.. I just got done with a 500miles trip on interstate and never saw about 218* for oil temp. only time ive ever seen 230+ for oil temp is when im beating the **** out of the car then sit in the drivethrough getting food on a hot day.
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230 is normal oil temp?? idk bout that... mine and my friends V both average 200-212 for oil temp around town.. I just got done with a 500miles trip on interstate and never saw about 218* for oil temp. only time ive ever seen 230+ for oil temp is when im beating the **** out of the car then sit in the drivethrough getting food on a hot day.
Mine goes to 230 and stays put unless I am really ******* it, it might go up a few deg.
#10
also kinda off topic of this thread but my speedo has stop working but everything else in the gauge cluster continues to work and i replace the vehicle speed sensor on the tranny twice and still had no luck with fixing it any suggestion
#12
Be sure that you don't have the speedo pigtail mixed up with the other one that is identical on that side of the trans. I made that mistake when I put the motor back in my car.
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If it was i didn't notice because i wasn't paying attention to any temps until i did the water pump. I know when i first got the car i drove it during the summer at the beach and it read 300 soo i'm sure it was probably close to as high as that. I put a washer in between the ground and the car and it seemed to have helped. im gonna try moving it to under the hood strut though since most seem to think the helped the best