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drew8372
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| my engine has been running great the last two years since i put the svda distributor on. which is awesome because i had a few years it ran shitty. but my question is when i run it for a while around town the dip stick is super hot you can barely stand it, i understand that thats not good. the oil on the other hand isn't as super hot when you touch it to your finger. so i'm not sure if i'm heating my engine up too much, because everyone on here says a hot dip stick is bad. |
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JerryMCarter1
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You need a save my bug dip stick temp device
Ya wire it into the oil light and when your above 235 then the light goes on -- which tells you your running to hot
$35.00 I have an extra I will sell you for $25.00
When is the last time you did a major tune up ?
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i can hold mine all day it runs about 160F (IR PYRO GUN fact )
my wife , cant.
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JerryMCarter1
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http://www.savemybug.com/
hit the vidio
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gevmage
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: hot dip stick |
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| my engine has been running great the last two years since i put the svda distributor on. which is awesome because i had a few years it ran shitty. but my question is when i run it for a while around town the dip stick is super hot you can barely stand it, i understand that thats not good. the oil on the other hand isn't as super hot when you touch it to your finger. so i'm not sure if i'm heating my engine up too much, because everyone on here says a hot dip stick is bad. |
Yeah, what you should do is get something to measure the oil temperature directly. Meat thermometers are good for that. They have a long metal probe that sticks into the meat; you can put that into the dip-stick hole and it will measure the oil temp (keep a separate one for the car; don't use the one from your kitchen). You can get them where the readout is separate, or just sits on top of the probe. If you shop carefully, you can usually find one for 10 or 15 dollars. I'm talking about digital meters.
As someone else mentioned, you can also get an infra-red thermometer and point it at the side of the block, by the oil pressure switch. That temp reads within a couple of degrees of the oil temp when the engine is warm. That's much faster than using a meat thermometer, but they're a bit more expensive. Maybe $30?
The Gene Berg dip stick oil temp meter is a great thing. I have one for when I drive on the highway. I've wired it to a separate light; I want to know if my oil temp is up separately from an oil pressure failure.
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JerryMCarter1
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Meat thermometers are good for testing the temp of meat !
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Roostalee
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I tried testing the oil temp with a candy/meat thermometer, but most of those things are not nearly as long as the dipstick, so they don't get down into the oil.
Hey Candymustang, which of those at HF did you buy? They have a few online.
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drew8372
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| this is on my 72 super it has all the tins, no thermostat. i did a tune up last summer. i haven't this year because its running so good. i'll have to keep an eye on it and maybe do a tune-up this week, i just hate messing with it when it's running soo good |
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zombiebug
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Just my input the Save my bug oil temp dipstick idiot light thing works great. Its actually calibrated to 215F to flicker and 230F to stay on solid. Works really well and is great for peace of mind.
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JerryMCarter1
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Drew --- you have to find out if it is running hot
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can you stick one of those thermometers down there while the motor is running?... just wondering if it would hit anything?
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| can you stick one of those thermometers down there while the motor is running?... just wondering if it would hit anything? |
Nothing that the dipstick wouldn't hit as well. |
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| can you stick one of those thermometers down there while the motor is running?... just wondering if it would hit anything? |
Nothing that the dipstick wouldn't hit as well. |
sorry should have said if it's longer than the dip stick.
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drew8372
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I will get the "save my bug" dip stick and see what it does. then do a tune up. |
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Max Welton
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| can you stick one of those thermometers down there while the motor is running?... just wondering if it would hit anything? |
Nothing that the dipstick wouldn't hit as well. |
sorry should have said if it's longer than the dip stick. |
No problem. You can't hit any moving parts.
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Actually the save my bug does hit -- and the motor has to be off on install and remove
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gevmage
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| Actually the save my bug does hit -- and the motor has to be off on install and remove |
No, it doesn't. The dip stick temperature alarm goes in the dip stick hole, so goes down into the middle of the crank case, right where the dip stick goes, clear of any moving parts in the engine. It's safe to use when then engine's running.
And since it goes where the dip stick goes, you can get to it easily with the engine in the car. It can be installed easily; you don't have to remove the engine.
Usually the standard wiring is to wire it to the oil pressure wire. I don't like that personally; I want oil temperature warning to be a different light than oil pressure, so I wired up a separate light.
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JerryMCarter1
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huh !
your are saying mine does not hit
hahahaha
1973 stocker !
Wowoie
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