When I first got my BGT back on the road after a rebuild, I would start out
with fine oil pressure, go long enough to warm up then the pressure dropped
to zero. Scared the dickens out of me. I got a mechanical gage to verify
and the pressure turned out just fine. I have since replaced the sender at
the tune of $97 - trying to keep things original. I should feel lucky, they
used to be $137.
Randy
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> I'm the one who cast aspersions on the electric gauges. But I heard that
> from the local MG shop. The context was my buddy's 69 B which had been
> non-op since '77. We were trying to fire it up, and the oil pressure
started
> out around 30, but after we had it running and it got warm, it suddenly
> dropped to 0, prompting a shutdown. But it was suggested to him that the
> gauge was probably faulty, and they sold him a used, later-type
> direct-reading gauge (ulterior motive? you decide). Anyway, the new gauge
> showed 25 lbs at idle and 50 at 3000rpm, which seemed more reasonable,
given
> the known history of the motor..
>
> I don't know why Rick considers ALL the oil pressure gauges useless. Mine
> provides what appear to be perfectly reasonable and consistent readings,
> with numbers that correspond very well to what one would expect, again
given
> the known history of the engine.
>
> on 5/1/01 4:21 PM, Bill Schooler at wschooler@home.com wrote:
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