FINALLY, some common sense prevails ! On 2012-08-21, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote: > Somewhere in all this please tell me you put in an actual oil > pressure gauge, either for test or permanently? You can go around > the barn forever replacing parts (in electronics we called that > "shotgunning") but if the oil pressure is in fact below the standard > then you're never going to fix the alarm because it's already working. > > Ok, I know you didn't, but please do. As long as I've been around > here people have been resistant to actually testing oil pressure when > troubleshooting an alarm situation, but the whole point of the alarm > is to tell you to test the oil pressure! > > It's at least as likely that the oil pressure is actually low as that > the alarm has failed, particularly if it's going off at exactly the > time you'd most expect a marginal oil pressure problem to show its > nasty head -- coming off a high-speed run in hot weather.
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