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Subject:Re: coolant leak story
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:00:32 -0800

if your sender wire for your installed gauge grounds out you have a false positive too.

If the wire comes adrift and does not ground out then you have a false negative.

Your gauges are not immune to errors.

The oil press warning buzzer in the WBX is, I think, a good thing.

alistair

On 2012-11-28, at 5:38 PM, Don Hanson wrote:

> With an oil temperature gauge, in addition to the other systems to warn
> you, you can confirm when your motor might be running hot.....If you lose
> coolant your oil temp will go sky high PDQ!   And you can see the oil
> pressure decline as the oil temp goes up....Hot oil and low Oil Pressure
> means stop NOW.....to me anyhow.