Re: Thermostat/Oil Cooler (story too long... but useful...)

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 15 Aug 2001, at 14:23, sml214@casbah.it.northwestern.edu wrote:
 
> In the next paragraph or so, it was listed what Berg said that cold engines do, 
> and of those I said that this exact problem - ring and cylinder wear - is the 
> only one that both exists and is helped by the thermostat.  The other one that 
> exists is bearing wear due to cold/non-existant oil, but my point was that the 
> thermostat didn't help this - the pressure relief valve did. 

It seems to me that the thermostat plays a significant part in the 
oil/bearing problem, too, by getting the engine, including the oil,  
warm and free flowing as quickly as possible.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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