From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 20:20:19 PDT
This is a great learning experience......my automotive repair experience
with electricity always required a ground check up front, before I did
anything else...other than to assure I had power at all.....
Always check the grounds....FIRST!
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: [MV] Oil pressure problem
> Gents
>
> A while back I mentioned to this list that my oil pressure gage was was
> acting odd. Well after trouble shooting, such as testing the oil pressure
> gage, testing the pressure from the engine block and replacing the sending
> unit, I finally found out what the real problem was. It was the grounding
> wire that connects to the back of the oil pressure gage. Corrosion had
> built up on the copper plate on the end of the grounding wire which
> resulted in a gradual poor connection. This caused the oil pressure guage
> to give off periodic inaccurate readings. The most common problem was
> that it would start off reading fine but slowly drop and on a few
> occasions drop to zero. I cleaned the copper plate off with fine sand
> paper and reconnected the ground. After doing this the guage was reading
> normally again. So far I haven't had any problems since.
>
> Darrell
>
>
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