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Subject:Re: Was-Still got the Drips-Now Oil pressure switch?
From:Allan Streib
Date:Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:18:58 -0400

Hm maybe that is why my van had a 1.8 bar sensor installed when I got
it.  And yes, the buzzer made its presence known frequently.

I replaced it with a gray (0.9 bar) sensor and the buzzer has been
quiet ever since.

Allan

Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> writes:

> Bentley and Etka is wrong. Unless you like the sound of the oil
> buzzer, you want the grey switch, .9bar. The white switch is 1.8
> bar, (25.4 psi).  You will not reliably have 25 psi at 2,500 rpm so
> the buzzer will be tested with the white switch.
>
> Dennis

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