[Vwdiesel] Synthetic Oil

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/6/2009 2:22:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
toensing at wildblue.net writes:

> This also happened to my '85 Mazda 626 diesel 100 miles east of Las Vegas 
> when the temperature gage showed it was warm but not overheating. This is 
> why I like to add an extra water temperature gage

  That's the problem with most (all?) coolant temp gauges.  If you 
lose coolant and don't happen to see the gauge going up for the 
couple of minutes the temps are able to register, then the temp 
drops back dow as it conducts heat ONLY from the hot surroundings 
since there's not scalding coolant flowing past it as your engine cooks.
  I'd sat an oil temp gauge would be a good second gauge rather than 
a redundant coolant temp gauge for that specific reason.  YMMV
    Loren