ENGINE TEMPERATURE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 27

ENGINE TEMPERATURE

"lias not 'Starting from Cold' got a double-meaning, namely, starting witli a cold sump and cold radiator, or starting with cold radiator only? writes a correspondent to "The Motor." The timo required to heat the circulating water is from 12 to 18 minutes with a covered radiator, but the engine oil will take considerably longer to attain a temperature which will render it sufficiently mobile .'to assure perfect lubrication of tho cylinders in particular. Therefore, do not drive your car too hardat first, but take the reading of the oil-pressure gauge.into account and do not bo wholly .guided by the thermometer. If a car has been standing just long enough to allow tho circulating water to be cooled, it will be found, on starting lip, that the pressure gauge shows a low reading, the oil being still very mobile. I would prefer (if necessary) to drive a car hard with a cool radiator and a warm sump, than with a hot radiator and a cold sump. Consideration in this direction should lengthen the life of any-engine." •

It is stated that within two years the rule of.'tho. road in Austria-will bechanged, from keep to the left to keep to the right. This will bring the mainland'of Europe in line.