Quite right. We do obsess about oil pressure.
Mae West achieved fame in several ways, one of which was a good turn
of phrase. She took credit for "too much of a good thing is never enough"
and "nothing succeeds like excess", both of which might apply to our oil
pressure worries.
Bob
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:32:57 -0800 Dave & Liz DuBois
<ddubois@sinclair.net> writes:
> >
> >
> > We like to see higher pressures these days when we can read
> gauges.
> >Who knows what pressures really are in engines that have only
> lights?
> >
>
> The pressure can be as low as 7psi before the idiot light will come
> on. In his book "Living With the XPAG", Neil Cairns asks the
rhetorical
> question "If the MG was fitted with an oil light that only came on
> at 10psi as in modern cars, and no oil pressure gauge, what would you
> find to worry about?"
>
> I think that Neil was trying to gently say that we shouldn't obsess
> about oil pressure.
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