[Shop-talk] Oil-pressure gauge goes nuts on Suburban.

[pethier at comcast.net]

Ah.  That must be it.

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Niolon" <jniolon at att.net>
> To: pethier at comcast.net, "shop-talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:43:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Oil-pressure gauge goes nuts on Suburban.
> NAH.... The brownies only do upholstery repair and cookies.... elves
> do shoe
> repair, and work for Santa and some do cookies too... for complicated
> electronical problems... they are caused by Murphy and usually
> repaired by
> GM-gnomes. a 'small' group of disgruntled guys that were trained at GM
> thru
> affirmtive action, but were too short to reach the assembly line and
> people
> kept stepping on them and putting them in tall empty boxes...so GM cut
> them
> loose.
> 
> They vowed revenge by fixing mysterious problems and robbing GM of
> outrageously high service department charges. You sir, are a lucky man
> to
> have them on your side... You should leave a couple of packs of beef
> jerky
> and a beer in the garage to thank them.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <pethier at comcast.net>
> To: "old dirtbeard" <dirtbeard at pacbell.net>
> Cc: <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Oil-pressure gauge goes nuts on Suburban.
> 
> 
> > Whatever the cause, it healed itself overnight in the cold garage.
> > This
> > morning it acted completely normal. Drove the truck three times
> > today for
> > considerable distances and all the gauges acted as expected.
> >
> > Maybe the brownies came and repaired it.
> >
> > Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> > 1973 Triumph Stag LE22439UBW "uncle jack", Sapphire Blue
> > 2004 Suburban 8.1, Sport Red, the only automatic of the bunch
> > 2005 Lotus Elise, Bordeaux Red Pearl
> > 2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4, Berry Red
> > pethier at comcast.net
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier
> > http://www.flickr.com/groups/triumphtransamerica
> > http://www.mnautox.com
> > http://www.mntriumphs.org
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "old dirtbeard" <dirtbeard at pacbell.net>
> >> To: pethier at comcast.net, shop-talk at autox.team.net
> >> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 9:59:41 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Oil-pressure gauge goes nuts on Suburban.
> >> Hi Phil,
> >>
> >>
> >> Just a guess, but perhaps the viscosity of the oil at 11 above was
> >> thick enough to jam the sender unit wide open and now it is stuck
> >> there. Maybe with heat and cycles it will free up again. Just a
> >> guess...
> >>
> >>
> >> best,
> >>
> >> doug
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