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Originally Posted by bucketman
Maybe my link was misleading. What I was suggesting was the inline mocal thermostat. The inline, keeps the valving to the oil cooler completely closed until the preset temp is reached. That means your oil will warm to operating temps before the oil cooler would even come in to play. .
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We undestood the link...The problem is, those outboard thermstats operate just like the Thermostatic plates and bleed oil to the coolr all the time as I described earlier. Digging a little further into BAT's website I found this description for the outboard types:
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Cold oil enters the
thermostat and is bypassed through the center of the
unit returning to engine (figure 1). During warm-up
the thermostat never closes off oil flow to the cooler,
rather, it offers a less restrictive path for the oil to flow*
allowing the cooler to acclimate to system
temperature. As oil warms to 180 degrees (200 in high
temp versions) the operating "waxstat" closes the
bypass permitting full flow to cooler (figure 2).
*percentage of oil bypass can vary up to the point
where the bypass is closed and full flow to the cooler
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Flow diagrams on page 3 at the link:
http://97.74.103.94/files/thermos$.p...t1=Get+Pricing
Oh well...Back to the drawing board!...