Re: Worked on my MK1 today, got some questions.

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

At 08:52 PM 4/19/00 -0700, scirokn81 wrote:
>Yee Hah.
>Well I worked on the Mars-tt all day. What a wonderful day.
>
>I installed my Mocal oil cooler finally which led me to start pondering.
>Q1.   After driving it VERY hard for 1/2-hour or so the temp never went 
>over 180 deg. It used to vary between 200 and 210deg. most of the time. I 
>use Redline 20W50 Synthetic. Is it possible to run the engine too cold, or 
>not hot enough. The sandwich plate has a thermostat in it and appears to 
>be working correctly.
>
>Q2    I noticed that when I pulled off the oil filter, the Synthetic oil 
>was a med. brown. The engine now has about 8K miles on it and the oil has 
>about 2K on it. Is this normal, I kinda figured it would still be fairly 
>golden colored. Would this darkening be due to overheating the synthetic, 
>running too rich a fuel mixture, ???
>

Normal detergent action. Don't worry.

>Q3   When I put the cooler on it was dry (no oil). My assumption was that 
>when the engine heated up it would flow through the cooler and at that 
>point the engine would slowly lose oil pressure and end up low on oil. I 
>ran the motor until I felt the cooler lines get hot. Then I let her run 
>for another 30 sec. or so and shut her down.
>I then put another qt. of redline in and checked the level. It was right 
>at full 8) exactly as I had expected. I was wondering though if you can 
>get air in the system and cause a pressure problem or does it take care of 
>itself. (my oil pressure gauge isn't working and I haven't replaced it yet 
>so I don't know what the pressure is at)
>
>Thanks for any advise on the above questions.
>Keep on Scirokn!
>
>Randy B
>81 Cosmos Scirocco S - future project
>81 Mars Scirocco S - tt 1847cc 8V (Very happy now)
>87 gold Scirocco 16V - soon to be a 2.0
>
>


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