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Short Oil sending unit

Started by aviationfred, April 24, 2016, 12:54:01 AM

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ribbert

Quote from: aviationfred on May 10, 2016, 06:55:34 PM
I actually bought a second oil sender because the resistance readings were not close between the original short sender and the new long high match sender. The low match sender's resistance was also way different than the original sender............

Fred

Fred, IMO you are going to a lot of trouble here to get an accurate temperature reading when the actual numbers don't really matter, you only need a relative difference between hot and cold. Your oil is going to run at whatever temp it wants to, you can't adjust it.

Most factory fitted gauges in cars and bikes don't even have numbers, just graduations and symbols.

Just a thought.

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^^^ Yep, your oil temp is what it is....except, it's good to know when your oil gets up to operating temp.

You don't want to ring her out, visiting the kookaloo zone on cold oil.
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Maybe I will install an oil temp indicator as well. When the oil is warm enough a bright green "KOOKALOO" light will turn on. Kind of like knowing I have enough boot pressure to launch.
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Also there is other usage for oil temperature meter:  when I installed Delkevic exhaust, mixture was leaner and temperature rise. So when You know "normal" oil temperature for Your engine, You can detect that something going wrong when it suddenly change


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