oil temp guage

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Originally Posted by Tom Kirkham

Do you have an oil cooler? Typically an engine will not develop much oil temp if driven on the street with an oil cooler. If you have an oil cooler try blocking it off. I typically put duct tape directly onto the cooler. BTW you want you oil temperature to be around 210 degrees F.

Between a typically oversized radiator for the application combined with the oil cooler the engines in street use are over-cooled and hard to get to a good operating temp. I tried a higher thermostat and it started in the right direction. The next step would have been an oil cooler thermostat but some said they simply bypassed it altogether.