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Please, no offence intended. It is just that previous contributors on this subject of oil temperature used degrees centigrade. And, I bought my VDO oil temperature guage back in 1973 at a reduced price as old superseded stock just a few months before we went metric here and so I got used to living with my car's engine performance and monitoring system in the "old" farenheit scale. [Nevertheless, it still does amuse me to see continual reference to those antiquated "quarts" especially when discussing matters like the amount of oil in an air cleaner for a vehicle like a VW Type3 which could hardly be a more metric car. Yet, even my 1966 edition of the US-published Henry Elfrink "Volkswagen Type3 Technical Manual" says the air-cleaner for single carburettor cars takes 0,25litres and the twin-carb air-cleaner takes 0,4litres. It makes no mention of quarts.] Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia. Drake wrote: > > That engine had a VDO dipstick oil temperature guage and gave readings in > the > > old farenheit scale. > > heh, what are you trying to say? That we Americans are using old, outdated > measurements, that we should have ditched a long time ago in favor of what > everyone else in the world is using, so that things would be simpler all > around. Not to mention that we have said we would ditch them in the past, > but have blown that off as well :) > > Drake ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org