Oil Pressure Gauge

[Ldub]

[QUOTE=TheGanzman;148147] In real World driving, we're all guilty of being lulled into a bucolic state of complacency; fiddling with radios, CD players, DVD players, Palm Pilots, Cell Phones, GPS devices, returning text messages, nut scratching - have I left anything out? [QUOTE]

Well, since you asked...smacking the kids around, putting on makeup, reading books & papers, eating & drinking....I know there is more...

Here is a little something that might actually work, it's been posted here before, but I can't remember who to give credit to...

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

OK, found it...Thanks to Rene M

http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...ht=accumulator

[tom4bren]

Spit'n, pick'n, oggling ...

[VehiCrazy]

Just stating what works for me. I have mine on the pillar so it is always in my peripheral vision.

As for them being not worth the trouble. Nice blanket statement with no backing evidence. If you are tapping into the port on the oil filter you are reading the pressure to the engine as it happens. And you are able to see the oil pressure sputter before it goes completely. Way before you do major damage. I have done it. I am actually speaking from experience.

I thought this forum was to help each other out. Advice from people who don't have the gauge and have not used it telling people that it is worthless isn't much help. I have one. I use one. It works. And you don't have to be a race car driver to watch your gauges.

[TheGanzman]

Well, I'm 53 years old, supported myself through college by street racing in the '70's, and I've built 23 vehicles from the ground up; other than that, I don't have any experience...

I say again: When you have a sudden loss of oil pressure/volume, you have a coupla SECONDS to react before your motor is deader than disco. If you just HAPPEN to be staring at your oil pressure gauge (and how many of you have overheated an engine - usually a LOT more gradual of a process - and NOT noticed your temp. gauge climbing 'til it was in the red) and have the foresight to IMMEDIATELY shut 'er down, you're golden; otherwise, you're SOL...

Just a "contrasting opinion" - if YOU think an oil pressure gauge is protecting YOUR engine, good for YOU! For every ONE guy I've met who can say he saved his motor 'cause he saw the low oil pressure on the gauge, I can think of a dozen more guys with oil pressure gauges who WEREN'T watching it when it zero-pegged...

Oh, and BTW, I did happen to offer something as a worthwhile alternative, that the OP might not have been aware of; an AUTOMATIC system - far more fail-safe. So keep your rocket in your pocket, please...

[Ldub]

Just stating what works for me. I have mine on the pillar so it is always in my peripheral vision.

As for them being not worth the trouble. Nice blanket statement with no backing evidence. If you are tapping into the port on the oil filter you are reading the pressure to the engine as it happens. And you are able to see the oil pressure sputter before it goes completely. Way before you do major damage. I have done it. I am actually speaking from experience.

I thought this forum was to help each other out. Advice from people who don't have the gauge and have not used it telling people that it is worthless isn't much help. I have one. I use one. It works. And you don't have to be a race car driver to watch your gauges.

Speaking of "blanket statements"...just because YOUR particular experience differs from others around here, who are trying to help each other out, doesn't make your opinion magically more valuable...


(edit) Dang, The Ganzman beat me to it...gonna have to start callin' him "quickdraw"...

[TheGanzman]

(edit) Dang, The Ganzman beat me to it...gonna have to start callin' him "quickdraw"...

That's what SHE said last night!:bgwp:

[Ldub]

That's what SHE said last night!:bgwp:

A-Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.........

Thanks for makin' me shoot Jack, Coke & snot rockets out da nose...

[TheGanzman]

A-Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.........

Thanks for makin' me shoot Jack, Coke & snot rockets out da nose...

Looks like we'll get along JUST fine; I'm j'es finishing up a Jack & Coke (decaf) myownself!

Great minds think alike; and then there's you & me!

[Gussie2000]

[QUOTE=Ldub;148149][QUOTE=TheGanzman;148147] In real World driving, we're all guilty of being lulled into a bucolic state of complacency; fiddling with radios, CD players, DVD players, Palm Pilots, Cell Phones, GPS devices, returning text messages, nut scratching - have I left anything out?

Well, since you asked...smacking the kids around, putting on makeup, reading books & papers, eating & drinking....I know there is more...

Here is a little something that might actually work, it's been posted here before, but I can't remember who to give credit to...

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

OK, found it...Thanks to Rene M

http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...ht=accumulator

Hey !

What about drinking dunky donuts coffee with bagels while you are searching for the napkins under the dash board ?

[SilverBullet75]

I used to have an old Porsche 914 that had an oil pressure light that came on at low psi. When I added a gauge, I also added an annoying/loud piezo beeper that sounded when the light went on (approx. 10psi). This came in very handy during autocrosses..

So for a VX, you'd need the 914 oil pressure sender (or equiv.) and a light and/or piezo beeper from Radio Shack.