Oil temps

[alexanderfoti]

Do any of you monitor your oil temps?

I installed an oil temp sender (sandwich plate between oil filter and block) and I do not see oil temps above 40-45 deg C (its currently 4 deg c) around town. My sump is stuck out in the air flow so doesn't surprise me that much, Should be able to net a few mpg by insulating the sump etc.

[alexanderfoti]

To follow up on this, I fitted one of these:



and an oil "cooler" from a Fazer 600:



Which is basically a flat plate heat exchanger.











Haven't ridden it yet, but ran the engine at idle for 20 minutes and it got the oil temps to 60 degrees and much quicker than it did before, will be interesting to see what its like on the open road.

Its plumbed into the cooling system on the "closed" side of the thermostat so I do wonder if it will get the oil temp much past 72 (stat opening temp) as most of the coolant will bypass it and go through the rad with the stat open.

[Tetronator]

Fancy, I modified my Oil pan to fit an temp sensor. So I can monitor it directly.