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Installing a oil-pressure gauge 120-130

posted by  walrus3 on  Sun Aug 17 13:05 CST 2008
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Most of them that really have numbers are pretty accurate and pressure is only
affected by tubing size when there is flow involved. The amount of flow to activate
an oil pressure gauge is so small that you could have a VERY small line and it would
work fine.

The idiot (yellow) light is pretty good to tell you about catastrophic oil loss
and does not require close reading of numbers. Be sure and leave it hooked up.
Use a tee pipe fitting if necessary.

Oil pressure depends on several things, one of which is usually NOT oil level unless it gets below the level of the pump pickup.
The things are: tightness of the pump, effective volume of the pump per revolution,
pump speed, leaks in the oil lines, resistance to flow in the filter, bearing clearances,
temperature of the oil and parts being lubricated, and viscosity of the oil (which changes some with temperature).
--
George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!






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