At 11:34 AM 2/14/2002, Fitz-Randolph, Douglas wrote:
> > check the fluids before departing, topping up if needed. If I top up the
> > oil a little too much, the oil pressure light/buzzer will come on while
> > decelerating after extended high-speed cruising. Why? I don't know,
> > really. There might be a problem with some other component that having
> > too much oil exacerbates, however, since I started being careful n-o-t
> > to overfill the oil, I have not had the buzzer come on at all. Correlation

As was documented on the list a while back, overfilling even a very small
amount will cause the oil temp to rise dramatically under sustained
load.  I think you can be comfortable with the causation theory. <g>

david

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