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Date:         Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:15:44 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer-Arrgh!
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At 02:30 PM 8/1/2010 Sunday, David Clarkson wrote: >If no fault is found with the wire I'll try Marvel Mystery Oil. It's great

The switch should close (i.e. short to ground) when the pressure gets up to about 13 psi. Below that it should be open. I'd be very surprised if there were something blocking it so effectively that the pressure couldn't get through. Inside the switch the oil presses against a diaphragm, so there's nothing to stick there. Water could get into the outer part of the switch and corrode things, or the diaphragm could leak and fill the whole switch with oil.

Yours, DAvid


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