Oil Temperature Sender Position

[Steve_D]

Where is the most common position for the Oil Temperature Sender?
There does not appear to be an immediately obvious choice.
My guess would be in the side of the sandwhich plate.
Steve

[gdr]

Was told by Real Steel to put the oil temp sender in the return line from the cooler so that it's measuring temp of cooled oil before it enters engine. I have used an in line sender adapter but in retrospect, would have been neater (and cheaper) to drill and tap the sandwich plate as you suggest.

[Chewy]

Mine is on the sanwich plate to the oil filter directly above the pipes to the oil cooler. I had to file the lip on the block where they meet to ensure clearance once it was screwed all the way in

[andycanam]

I put my oil temp sensor in the sandwhich plate, funnily for the opposite reason to Real steel... so that I could measure the oil as it exits the engine i.e. at it's hottest.

Must say I think its definatelly worth having as I have noticed the water temp and oil temp can vary quite a lot under differing circumstances. ie track, strip, road etc...

[gdr]

Andy, what sort of oil temp do you get during normal running with the sender on oil out side? I'm struggling to get the oil temp beyond 60 deg C when pootling about despite having a thermostat bypass on the cooler. This seems a bit cold and I noted on previous thread someone spun a bearing possibly due to cold oil. But maybe my low reading is just function of sender position, and I wonder if the in line adapter is somehow not allowing the right oil temp to get to the sender.
Things heat up on track of course, which is probably where Real Steel were coming from on the sender position, but not really feasible to drive like that all the time on public road!

[andycanam]

Normal 70mph driving I get 68c on water and around 78c on oil..... on track they both go up and have seen as oil as high as 115c on track but this was before the side ducts.
In trafic they normaly equalise at around 90c

Not sure what I would be reading if it was on the other side of the Oil cooler.

[Crazy of Cookham]

I have my sender on the engine block which I guess is near useless. Another winter job. I seam to remember a note on Stig site about positioning and working out which path the oil takes through the plate, so where to drill. Must go and re-read.