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I've gone thru the archives and not come up with anyone struggling with
this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At an OAT of -20*C and the
air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the best I can get is 160*
oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at 80psi and of course
boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi temps are definitely
not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used FOKM in the summer with
heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures we can get around here
she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head temps are normal but
cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is closed - calls for a
little judgement in getting her down from altitude. I would like to pick
up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to -30*C is feasible.
Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder areas must have solutions
to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all pilots look forward to.
Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground), partly cloudy and
open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured her cruise at about
118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20% better than on floats if
faster is better??
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Garry Wright
R068 C-FOKM
email: wrightdg@ca.inter.net
Phone 403 931 1573




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I've gone thru the archives and not come up with anyone struggling with
this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At an OAT of -20*C and the
air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the best I can get is 160*
oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at 80psi and of course
boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi temps are definitely
not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used FOKM in the summer with
heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures we can get around here
she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head temps are normal but
cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is closed - calls for a
little judgement in getting her down from altitude. I would like to pick
up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to -30*C is feasible.
Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder areas must have solutions
to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all pilots look forward to.
Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground), partly cloudy and
open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured her cruise at about
118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20% better than on floats if
faster is better??
--
Garry Wright
R068 C-FOKM
email: wrightdg@ca.inter.net
Phone 403 931 1573




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Gary,
I have read that you can get low oil temps due to congealed oil in the oil
cooler. Also have you checked the calibration of the gage?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Wright" <wrightdg@ca.inter.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:54 PM
Subject: Oil temperatures

I've gone thru the archives and not come up with anyone struggling with
this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At an OAT of -20*C and the
air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the best I can get is 160*
oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at 80psi and of course
boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi temps are definitely
not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used FOKM in the summer with
heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures we can get around here
she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head temps are normal but
cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is closed - calls for a
little judgement in getting her down from altitude. I would like to pick
up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to -30*C is feasible.
Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder areas must have solutions
to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all pilots look forward to.
Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground), partly cloudy and
open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured her cruise at about
118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20% better than on floats if
faster is better??
--
Garry Wright
R068 C-FOKM
email: wrightdg@ca.inter.net
Phone 403 931 1573




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Gary...take some duct tape and mid cowl inlet put two strips of it
overlapping about 1" across each inlet horizontally. Take the top/bottom
edges and fold them in slightly onto each other to stiffen it up and

have block offs that look kinda venturi shape. Go out and fly it and see

it does. Play with the tape until you get the temps up considerably even

the CHT's hit the 400+ mark if you can get the oil to come up. Once you

it working make an alum piece to match what you did in tape. That's the

I never did with mine last year and flew the tape all winter and it never
let go. Then when I removed it last spring I set it somewhere to make
patterns and don't remember where that somewhere was.... so have to start
over again this winter.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Wright" <wrightdg@ca.inter.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:54 PM
Subject: Oil temperatures

I've gone thru the archives and not come up with anyone struggling with
this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At an OAT of -20*C and the
air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the best I can get is 160*
oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at 80psi and of course
boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi temps are definitely
not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used FOKM in the summer with
heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures we can get around here
she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head temps are normal but
cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is closed - calls for a
little judgement in getting her down from altitude. I would like to pick
up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to -30*C is feasible.
Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder areas must have solutions
to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all pilots look forward to.
Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground), partly cloudy and
open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured her cruise at about
118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20% better than on floats if
faster is better??
--
Garry Wright
R068 C-FOKM
email: wrightdg@ca.inter.net
Phone 403 931 1573




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I've gone thru the archives and not come up with anyone struggling with
this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At an OAT of -20*C and the
air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the best I can get is 160*
oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at 80psi and of course
boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi temps are definitely
not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used FOKM in the summer with
heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures we can get around here
she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head temps are normal but
cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is closed - calls for a
little judgement in getting her down from altitude. I would like to pick
up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to -30*C is feasible.
Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder areas must have solutions
to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all pilots look forward to.
Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground), partly cloudy and
open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured her cruise at about
118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20% better than on floats if
faster is better??

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com
[mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:30 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures


The O-320's oil cooler is on all the time when running
a screen and cold oil
bypass plunger (plunger is there in case it's too cold
to get thru cooler),
unless there is a Vernatherm screen housing installed
and a vernatherm
installed in it. This installation in FOKM is the
screen and bypass plunger
that gives the best cooling in the summer. The
Vernatherm installations
cause the oil temps to run hotter due to the fact that
the oil is being
forced thru a smaller temp controlled orifice (like a
car thermostat) to get
to the cooler. If his cooler is blocked with Congealed
oil he should be
running hotter..not colder...I would think.

Gary, as Al points out you might want to stick the
sendor in boiling water
and confirm temp is accurate. Don't think it has been
checked before.

If the tape doesn't work Gary you could always pop a
hose off the cooler and
one off the engine and put the line from outlet to
inlet to get rid of the
cooler all together for the winter. Line left on
cooler just loop it back
onto the other cooler fitting to keep it clean and
sealed. Wouldn't be very
easy to flip back though if you happen to go somewhere
and the outside and
oil temps go thru the roof though.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Paxhia" <paxhia2@comcast.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures

Gary,
I have read that you can get low oil temps due to

congealed oil in the oil

cooler. Also have you checked the calibration of the gage?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Wright" <wrightdg@ca.inter.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:54 PM
Subject: Oil temperatures

I've gone thru the archives and not come up with

anyone struggling with

this one. My oil temps are generally too low. At

an OAT of -20*C and the

air intake to the oil cooler fully taped off, the

best I can get is 160*

oil temp. As a result, oil pressure is a bit hi at

80psi and of course

boiling off any water in the oil is not happening.

FOKM is an O320 well installed by Wayne O' and hi

temps are definitely

not much of a problem. Thing is Wayne only used

FOKM in the summer with

heavy oil and now at the low winter temperatures

we can get around here

she just doesn't seem to warm up. Exhaust and head

temps are normal but

cool quickly (shockingly so) when the throttle is

closed - calls for a

little judgement in getting her down from

altitude. I would like to pick

up about 30* in oil temp so that flying down to

-30*C is feasible.

Beyond that I get a little prickly.

It seems to me some of the guys in even colder

areas must have solutions

to this sort of thing.

Today was one of those glorious days that all

pilots look forward to.

Light breezes, a bit cool (-17.5*C on the ground),

partly cloudy and

open skies. Floats are off for now so I measured

her cruise at about

118mph according the the GPS. Thats about 20%

better than on floats if

faster is better??
--
Garry Wright
R068 C-FOKM
email: wrightdg@ca.inter.net
Phone 403 931 1573

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I just have the bypass plunger and screen on mine, and also have
the problem of needing to adjust how much tape I have over my
cooler to control my oil temps. And because I have the speed
cowl, I need to remove my top cowl each time I want to do that. I
do have a spare Vernatherm which I could install. Or I have also
been thinking of rigging up some kind of flap mechanism that I
can control from the cockpit. Then I can warm it up quicker in
cold weather and open it as needed in flight, once I have boiled
off the moisture. Of course, I am still not talking -20C weather,
as you won't catch me flying in those conditions. But even at +5
or 10C, I need to have my cooler mostly taped off. It is only in
the hottest part of the summer that I have no tape at all on it.
My cooler, BTW, is mounted at the rear of the baffle.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com
[mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:30 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures


The O-320's oil cooler is on all the time when running
a screen and cold oil
bypass plunger (plunger is there in case it's too cold
to get thru cooler),
unless there is a Vernatherm screen housing installed
and a vernatherm
installed in it. This installation in FOKM is the
screen and bypass plunger
that gives the best cooling in the summer. The
Vernatherm installations
cause the oil temps to run hotter due to the fact that
the oil is being
forced thru a smaller temp controlled orifice (like a
car thermostat) to get
to the cooler. If his cooler is blocked with Congealed
oil he should be
running hotter..not colder...I would think.

Gary, as Al points out you might want to stick the
sendor in boiling water
and confirm temp is accurate. Don't think it has been
checked before.

If the tape doesn't work Gary you could always pop a
hose off the cooler and
one off the engine and put the line from outlet to
inlet to get rid of the
cooler all together for the winter. Line left on
cooler just loop it back
onto the other cooler fitting to keep it clean and
sealed. Wouldn't be very
easy to flip back though if you happen to go somewhere
and the outside and
oil temps go thru the roof though.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Paxhia" <paxhia2@comcast.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures

Gary,
I have read that you can get low oil temps due to

congealed oil in the oil

cooler. Also have you checked the calibration of the gage?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Wright" <wrightdg@ca.inter.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:54 PM
Subject: Oil temperatures

anyone struggling with

an OAT of -20*C and the

best I can get is 160*

80psi and of course

temps are definitely

FOKM in the summer with

we can get around here

temps are normal but

closed - calls for a

altitude. I would like to pick

-30*C is feasible.

areas must have solutions

pilots look forward to.

partly cloudy and

her cruise at about

better than on floats if

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-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:51 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures


You should look at the photos that Roger Hoffman has
put on his construction
site of the butterfly valve he set up for his... very slick.

http://tincantimes.dcsol.com/default6.htm

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Klatt" <Walter.Klatt@shaw.ca>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: RE: Oil temperatures

I just have the bypass plunger and screen on mine,

and also have

the problem of needing to adjust how much tape I have over my
cooler to control my oil temps. And because I have the speed
cowl, I need to remove my top cowl each time I want

to do that. I

do have a spare Vernatherm which I could install. Or

I have also

been thinking of rigging up some kind of flap

mechanism that I

can control from the cockpit. Then I can warm it up

quicker in

cold weather and open it as needed in flight, once I

have boiled

off the moisture. Of course, I am still not talking

-20C weather,

as you won't catch me flying in those conditions.

But even at +5

or 10C, I need to have my cooler mostly taped off.

It is only in

the hottest part of the summer that I have no tape

at all on it.

My cooler, BTW, is mounted at the rear of the baffle.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com
[mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:30 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures


The O-320's oil cooler is on all the time when running
a screen and cold oil
bypass plunger (plunger is there in case it's too cold
to get thru cooler),
unless there is a Vernatherm screen housing installed
and a vernatherm
installed in it. This installation in FOKM is the
screen and bypass plunger
that gives the best cooling in the summer. The
Vernatherm installations
cause the oil temps to run hotter due to the fact that
the oil is being
forced thru a smaller temp controlled orifice (like a
car thermostat) to get
to the cooler. If his cooler is blocked with Congealed
oil he should be
running hotter..not colder...I would think.

Gary, as Al points out you might want to stick the
sendor in boiling water
and confirm temp is accurate. Don't think it has been
checked before.

If the tape doesn't work Gary you could always pop a
hose off the cooler and
one off the engine and put the line from outlet to
inlet to get rid of the
cooler all together for the winter. Line left on
cooler just loop it back
onto the other cooler fitting to keep it clean and
sealed. Wouldn't be very
easy to flip back though if you happen to go somewhere
and the outside and
oil temps go thru the roof though.

Wayne

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From: "Al Paxhia" <paxhia2@comcast.net>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Oil temperatures

congealed oil in the oil anyone struggling with an OAT of -20*C and the best I can get is 160* 80psi and of course temps are definitely FOKM in the summer with we can get around here temps are normal but closed - calls for a altitude. I would like to pick -30*C is feasible. areas must have solutions pilots look forward to. partly cloudy and her cruise at about better than on floats if -------------------------------------------------------
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