How much oil

[MB]

Need sarcastic asssistance please folks, just had to ease my front end over a low cut smooth as catshit stump in the paddock
Pretty sure I’ve accidentally but carefully dented only the old faithful TD42’s oil sump
My old faithful is due for an oil change anyways tomorrow so should I still blindly pour in 10.5L exactly or process check as I’m conducting maintenance?


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[mihit]

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My old faithful is due for an oil change anyways tomorrow so should I still blindly pour in 10.5L exactly or process check as I’m conducting maintenance?

Corr blimey, tricky one. What does your manual say? :P

[MudRunnerTD]

Need sarcastic asssistance please folks, just had to ease my front end over a low cut smooth as catshit stump in the paddock
Pretty sure I’ve accidentally but carefully dented only the old faithful TD42’s oil sump
My old faithful is due for an oil change anyways tomorrow so should I still blindly pour in 10.5L exactly or process check as I’m conducting maintenance?


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Drop 10lts in. Start it. Stop, wait, check dip stick

[mihit]

Drop 10lts in. Start it. Stop, wait, check dip stick

No wayy!! Is that what I've been doing wrong all these years.

[MB]

Legend’s, Thank You Both
Out of Honest Interest, what water temperatures do you Blokes prefer to run your TD’s at? Personally found mine/s tested over the years absolutely Love running in the early 90’s stability/economy/stock power wise, any thoughts?
Would that affect or counteract ambient oil choice temperatures?


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[mihit]

Legend’s, Thank You Both
Out of Honest Interest, what water temperatures do you Blokes prefer to run your TD’s at? Personally found mine/s tested over the years absolutely Love running in the early 90’s stability/economy/stock power wise, any thoughts?
Would that affect or counteract ambient oil choice temperatures?


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Now you're opening a can of worms.
Overcooling can be almost as detrimental as overheating.
Oil is designed to be run hot. Unless you have other shit running, (trans cooler, bigger alt, pulley driven compressor, turbo, 37" tyres etc) which will affect the heat loadsing on the rad, I'd stick with stock.
But you've got me thinking now...I'll do a bit more reading... might swap in a cooler thermostat and give it a bash.

[Cuppa]

what water temperatures do you Blokes prefer to run your TD’s at?

Dunno if it's a preference, it's just what it is. Stock motor, stock radiator, additional cooling virtue of extended coolant system to canopy mounted marine calorifier HWS, 3" exhaust with mild 13.2psi tune. Plenty of weight & a light right foot. Temps average 85 to 92 up north, 80 to 85 down south. ..... excluding hills.

[Hodge]

Great question Mr. @MB Mark mate. I've been wondering about this... Most of the time , unless a hot / humid day, mine lingers 77C-85C-ish. Unless pushed, it won't go beyond that. Since December i've been using Penrite 15w-50. I've noticed over the years , during a long solid highway run as the temps go up summer time, AC on, it goes into high 80s. And the car feels, smoother, free-er so to speak... High country low-range hill climbs and it's been working for a prolonged time, after that it just feels "zippier".
Excuse the stupid words ive come up with for describe it. Is it placebo effect or is there science to this madness method???
How would one know a good "running temp" motor vs. oil? I had a look at specs of the oil and can't see much "temperature" ranges mentioned. Whats a proper warmed up TD range?

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[mihit]

Would be interesting to see a vehicle running proper temp gauges on oil, water, air intake and exhaust and map the corellation.... I'll be accepting donations of auber units and probes...

[MB]

Dunno if it's a preference, it's just what it is. Stock motor, stock radiator…...

Apologies for snippet (cut & paste) Cuppa Mate.
We can definitely increase or decrease our bog stock TD42’s OEM variants clean systems average water temps by way of the OEM 3 x thermostat choices available:
76.5C
82.0C
88.0C
Testing all OEM 3 over near a full year of seasons in Mexico-Victoria (-0C <> 40C / towing-unladen) uncovered that their max running water temperatures remained the same. It was their idling & average use zones that increased closer to a TD42 OEM variants sweet spot found of 92C.
Was just honestly wondering in my query if this warmer performance/economy change I made could have been the reason why I’ve admittedly uneducated with specifics took a nuffy chance to increase oil viscosity’s up from 15W/40 to the likes of 20W/60 and settled on 15W/50 now.


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