steam from right font fender well??

[stuttgart]

Hey guys well I have a fast question.. It .. well the weather is bad in Ohio today very , windy and rain.. and I was caught out in it for about two hours today.. and well while driving i was smelling a steam or dirty water smell.. and them when i got home i pulled under the car port to the house.. I was letting the car run as to burn off the water on the motor and all.. as mine doesn't seem to like being put awy wet. and i noticed smoke .. that was later identified as steam billowing up from the right fender well , I figured it was simply water evaporating off of the oil cool in the fender.. I felt the iol lines that run from the front to the rear and they were VERY hot .. is this a bad thing. as I have never noticed it before! it wasn't oil ..it was STEAM should I be worried or is it simply what i it seemed to be and that was water burning off of the oil lines and cooler ? please tell me if anyone else has every had this happen.
Eric
78SC

[makaio]

All is normal.

If your thermostat opens it means the oil is around 180 F. So yeah your pipes are going to get warm.

Same thing happened to me after I first bought my car. About scared the $hit out of me, untill i figured it out.


Cheers

[autobonrun]

The last time I had steam coming from under my fender wells, it was coming off my brakes. I got a call at work from a neighbor that the fire departement was at my house. When I arrived, the firemen said I must have been driving pretty fast. When I asked them how they could tell, they pointed back at my wheels. Smoke was actually coming off the brakes.

[stuttgart]

yeah!! i know what ya mean it scared me too.. I just sat inthe car and looked at it for a bit , before getting out to investigate! .. I didn't really WANT to know where it was comming from if you kow what i mean ! hahahaha Thanks guys you have eased my mind!