[s-cars] Oil Pressure

[Tom Green]

LOL,  I knew this was coming, Calvin.

Obviously, Floyd shouldn't worry because he has an oil pressure  
gage.  My point is
he shouldn't get sidetracked by the pressure going from 5 bar cold to  
2 bar at idle when
hot if he is using the correct oil for his ambient temperature, and  
as long as it moves up
to 3 to 3.5 bar when the rpm increases.

Tom

On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:20 PM, <calvinlc at earthlink.net>  
<calvinlc at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> The later cars don't even have an oil pressure gage, Floyd, so I
> wouldn't worry
>
> Yeah, except I found out the hard way that running without an oil  
> pressure
> gauge can cost you lots of dollars when an oil pump bolt backed out  
> on me
> over time.  If I had an oil pressure gauge I would have noticed the  
> pressure
> drops on stops, etc. and I could have saved myself a lot of
> headache....instead I had to rebuild the engine.  Ever since then I  
> always
> run with oil pressure gauges.  For non-modified cars I agree it is  
> less
> important, but still way more important than a stinkin voltmeter  
> that the
> newer cars replaced the oil pressure gauge with.
>
> --Calvin