Help! Keep blowing the engine.

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by robtek

Bf109 and Bf110
If you open the oil cooler before start-up you wait a looong time to get to 40°C!
Open the radiator (water) to 50% and leave the oil-cooler closed until you have reached 40°C Oil-Temp, then open to 50% also.
You can accelerate the warm up by running at slightly elevated rpm's, but stay below the rpm when the engine starts shaking!!

I am sorry for this, but the 109 does not demand an operation like this. If the PP stay on 12:00, you can take off immediately after engine start.