Jeezzzz, had a F'd up afternoon!
I started up the blue beast and had it running for ONE minute. Those of you that are familiar with Formals know that the oil pressure idiot light is kind of in hard spot to see on the dash. So I look around the steering wheel and seen that stupid *** idiot light lit up red. I almost had a heart attack and I shut it down as fast as I could. F! There goes $16k in 60 seconds. So.... I'm wondering how long the engine was running with no oil pressure. I just sat there for a minute and tried to calm down. I didn't hear any valve chatter and I couldn't smell any oil burning or any unusual smells. I get out of the car and look under it...no oil slick so that's good. Checked the dipstick and she's full. I checked and i see that I'm getting oil to the top of the valve train. I started the engine again and damn idiot light was flickering on and off and I shut it down again. I started to check the sending unit and discovered that the oil pressure sending unit wire either got pulled off or was removed to work on something else and forgot to hook it up. The connector was grounding out and turning the idiot light on. Thank God it was something simple and NOT a real oil pressure issue. I was going to blow off installing additional gauges but I'm going to have to seriously rethink that. I would feel a lot better with an oil pressure, water temp, and voltage gauges.
What a day!!!
I started up the blue beast and had it running for ONE minute. Those of you that are familiar with Formals know that the oil pressure idiot light is kind of in hard spot to see on the dash. So I look around the steering wheel and seen that stupid *** idiot light lit up red. I almost had a heart attack and I shut it down as fast as I could. F! There goes $16k in 60 seconds. So.... I'm wondering how long the engine was running with no oil pressure. I just sat there for a minute and tried to calm down. I didn't hear any valve chatter and I couldn't smell any oil burning or any unusual smells. I get out of the car and look under it...no oil slick so that's good. Checked the dipstick and she's full. I checked and i see that I'm getting oil to the top of the valve train. I started the engine again and damn idiot light was flickering on and off and I shut it down again. I started to check the sending unit and discovered that the oil pressure sending unit wire either got pulled off or was removed to work on something else and forgot to hook it up. The connector was grounding out and turning the idiot light on. Thank God it was something simple and NOT a real oil pressure issue. I was going to blow off installing additional gauges but I'm going to have to seriously rethink that. I would feel a lot better with an oil pressure, water temp, and voltage gauges.
What a day!!!