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Well, your starting at say 70F and getting it up to a working temp of
roughly 160F, if you cant get it up quickly it will wear out faster, with
the Thermostat Id say 3-5 minutes, without it roughly 10 -15 minutes.
Its not years, its miles and how its used... in town short trips will really
suffer without a thermostat but long highway trips will be easier on it.
A good stock engine should last roughly 125Kmi, that goes down to 60-70K if
there is no thermostat (roughly)
Keith
Top Notch Restorations
topnotch@nycap.rr.com
71 Squareback
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
87 golf "Winterat"
93 RX7 "Redstur"
-----Original Message-----
From: BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com [mailto:BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:40 PM
To: type3@vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Number 4 issues..
In a message dated 6/5/06 8:56:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
topnotch@nycap.rr.com writes:
<< Generally, as a rule of
thumb it cuts engine life roughly in half, but it would be worse in the
Northern Climates than the southern ones but even down south you really
need
them operating. >>
What would you use as an outdoor air temp change then? I'm just asking,
because my Notch's engine doesn't have them, and I've had that engine for
over 10
years, and I got it used. It's an OE VW 73 bug engine though. But... I use
the
car in the summer only, where the coolest temp might be 40 degrees.
Bob 65 Notch S w/ Sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
71 Square, now a 2 seat Roadster, pics can be seen at;
http://volksrods.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2977 and now has a dead T-3
with D-jet FI
engine. : (
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