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Re: oil pressure guage

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Subject: Re: oil pressure guage
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:23:22 -0700
on 5/19/02 5:54 PM, David Councill at dcouncil@imt.net wrote:

> Today I removed the dashboard. Much to my surprise, I find a oil line
> running to the oil pressure gauge. I always thought that MGs went to the
> electric gauge from a sender unit in 68. Now it looks like they decided to
> go back to a mechanical gauge in 1972 (although the gauge itself looks the
> same from the front)..
> 
> Was there a reason for this?

Yes. It was because the electrical ones frequently failed to work. Or so
I've heard.

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Max Heim
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