[DeTomaso] Oil temperature and wear

Göran Malmberg hemipanter at hemipanter.se
Sat Feb 7 04:23:29 EST 2009


In my boat I got a belt driven waterpump. Not the highest Hp to drive but
it has the tension of the belt so the bearings has a portion if load. 
However
it is water lubricated, what about that viscosity?
Goran




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David in Durango" <adin at frontier.net>
To: <kenn_green at yahoo.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil temperature and wear


> Ahem, here's my theory . . .
>
> Stress and/or RPM causes wear. I think by stress I mean high power/ cubic
> inch and/or WOT.
>
> How do we get high oil temps?  High stress and/or RPM.
>
> Of course, I do admit that high oil temp = low viscosity and I'd love to 
> see
> data that low viscosity = low wear (cause it just AIN'T true.)
>
> That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.  Bring data or go home.
>
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:35 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Oil temperature and wear
>
>
>>I found this article on oil temp:
>>
>> http://www.elephantracing.com/techtopic/oiltemperature.htm
>>
>> It looks like they think above 250 really accelerates wear. It that a
>> common view?
>>
>> Ken
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