Black Bart
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Tonight I mowed my lawn and before I started i checked the ambient temp with 2 digital thermometers and then I shot the the siding on the garage with my heat gun to check the calibration
It was within a 1/10th of a degree of the digital thermometers.
Ambient temp was 79.8
I fast idled it until the oil was 140 then I started mowing.
After 40 minutes the filter was 157 F and I shot the lower crankcase where the oil level would be and it was 187F.
Since air was flowing over the filter it makes sense it would read a little less.
Since I'm using 5-40 T-6 I don't think I need to bother with a oil cooler full synthetic is happy at 225F and can run at much higher.
It was within a 1/10th of a degree of the digital thermometers.
Ambient temp was 79.8
I fast idled it until the oil was 140 then I started mowing.
After 40 minutes the filter was 157 F and I shot the lower crankcase where the oil level would be and it was 187F.
Since air was flowing over the filter it makes sense it would read a little less.
Since I'm using 5-40 T-6 I don't think I need to bother with a oil cooler full synthetic is happy at 225F and can run at much higher.