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Stubborn oil temps! (help)

>From what I've read, orange is for cars that recommend orange.  Green is for cars made when green was the latest/greatest.  Why take the chance?
But, use what you want.

Larry
sandiego16v
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anson Clement 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:55 PM
  Subject: Re: Stubborn oil temps! (help)


  I belive phosphorous (sp) has been the main enemy of aluminium heads in the past, I think that all name brand antifreeze claims to be free of the offending stuff. All the orange poo I have looked at (and run in both my rocco's) is phosphorous free.
   
  Anson

  L F <rocco16v@netzero.net> wrote:
  Sounds normal to me...cooling system has very little effect on oil temps.
  By the way, do back to green antifreeze. Now.
  The orange is not made for the alloys in our old engines. Seriously.

  Larry
  sandiego16v
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robbie Cotner 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:43 AM
  Subject: Stubborn oil temps! (help)


  Hey all,
  on the highway my car runs 110-115C(with 4K trans, 4000rpm@75mph) oil temps. The water needle is usually at or above the LED. Yesterday I super-flushed my cooling system(found lots of crap), backflushed the radiator(found it was clogged with a heavy-duty paper towel!), added a low temp thermostat and fan-switch, added prestone orange coolant(40/60), some new hoses, and put on a new expansion tank cap. Now on the highway the top of the coolant needle barely touches the LED, an improvement, but my oil temps are THE SAME. Changing the oil and filter didn't help either. It seems no matter what I do, my temps are always 110 and my cooling system doesn't affect the oil at all. Any ideas? 

  -Rob


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