Date:         Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:10:33 -0400
Reply-To:     Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
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From:         Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
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        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.



Cheers,    

Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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