[T2] Unsteady oil pressure and temp

[Robert Mann]

Dave featured:
>Pressure down and temp down at the same time, then back again? 
>Sounds more like a bad electrical connection (ground or 12V). For me 
>pressure always goes down with temp increase.

	I second that.
	Altho' the oil capacity of our engines is less than I'd have 
supposed desirable, it provides enough heat capacity that It is quite 
difficult for the oil T to change 20 F in just a couple min.  (CHT 
changes faster.)

R

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>>  On 15 Jul 2014, at 09:08 pm, Sami Dakhlia <sami.dakhlia at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Here's what I found odd: after a good hour of driving, oil temp
>>  slowing climbed to the 240F mark, while oil pressure remained steady
>>  at around 24 psi. (The figures are approximate.) Then the pressure
>>  reading suddenly dropped to about 18 psi and the oil temp dropped at
>>  well, down to 220F over the next couple of minutes.
>>  An hour later, the opposite happened, the pressure went up to 24 psi
>>  and oil temp crept up to 240, then 250 F.
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