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Cooling Questions, Oil temp rising
- Subject: Cooling Questions, Oil temp rising
- From: SequoiaGLX at twcny.rr.com (SequoiaGLX@twcny.rr.com)
- Date: Fri Aug 13 16:55:06 2004
FWIW, this happened when my car was about 8 years old, in Oklahoma in the summer. I changed the thermostat and coolant and then decided that wasn't it. The water temp wouldn't go up too badly but the oil would run around 120 on the highway. A new radiator cured the problem.
John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Rodriguez CJS/ELP <redrocco@gcj.net>
Date: Friday, August 13, 2004 5:23 pm
Subject: Cooling Questions, Oil temp rising
> Hi all
>
> It's been a while since my last post
> my rocco spend 3 months on my garage standing on hold
> now i'm back on my rocco again with new mounts, shocks, shifter
> linkage,cv-joints,moufler and master cylinder
>
> Now I have a couple of questions
>
> Yesterday i was driving my rocco and the oil temp started to rise
> till 120 c
> check oil level ok, coolant level ok
> but i dont want to take risks .. so i change the oil this morning
> is this a symptom of something bigger?
> any ideas what to check/ replace?
>
> Another Q : Is it convenient to remove the thermostat over the summer?
>
>
> btw , it's been a very hot summer down here in the juarez/el paso
> tx area
>
> cheers
>
> Martin Rodriguez
> 85 wolfsburg
> Juarez Mexico
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