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Originally Posted by turbophil
our oil takes "forever" to warm up, and perhaps our oil doesn't get hot enough to do its job effectively (recall that cold oil puts excess pressure on parts and does not lubricate as well as hot oil.... to a point anyway...).
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The oil adapter that the oil lines connect to is a thermostat controlled adapter. It only sends the oil to the coolers as it heats up and gets warm enough to start to open the thermostat (just like the one in the cooling system). A cold engine is not sending the oil through the coolers. A hot engine is sending some (or all) of it's oil through the coolers. It's part of why the oil temperatures in the engine don't get as high as they do in most cars.