R_Lefebvre said:Looks like the temp it is reading might be influenced by the engine block temperature since there is so much metal area for heat transfer into the sensor.
I have a somewhat similar arrangement on my Focus tring to measure air temperature. I have a sensor screwed into the metal air intake piping. Unfortunately it does a better job of measuring the tube temperature than the air temperature running through it. When the car isn't moving, you can watch the temps climb to 200F which obviously is not the air temperature.
I'd worry about a similar effect here, not displaying an accurate temperature. In this case, oil temp is usually higher than the coolant temp. If the sensor temperature were being dragged down through cooling of that plate via the engine block cooling, you could be led to a false sense of security.
I'd prefer an oil temp sensor right in the pan instead. Or in a hose.
R_Lefebvre said:Woah, good=open? That's not exactly failsafe! So if the wiring fails, the light stays off no matter what the oil pressure does.
Who designed that?
R_Lefebvre said:Woah, good=open? That's not exactly failsafe! So if the wiring fails, the light stays off no matter what the oil pressure does.
Who designed that?
That's a risk for any warning light. If the the wiring fails, it can cause the light to not work.R_Lefebvre said:Woah, good=open? That's not exactly failsafe! So if the wiring fails, the light stays off no matter what the oil pressure does.
antichrist said:That's a risk for any warning light. If the the wiring fails, it can cause the light to not work.