From: Dave Plowman (News) on 13 Jul 2010 09:17 In article <8a33qqFfmgU5(a)mid.individual.net>, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've never once seen a low oil level light. Oil level gauges, yes. Idiot > light, no. But I tend to avoid Japanese cars. Both my SD1 and BMW have a low oil level warning light. As well as an oil pressure one. I had an old Bentley once which obviously had some form of float sensor in the sump - press a button beside the fuel gauge and it read actual oil level, rather than just a warning when too low. -- *Microsoft broke Volkswagen's record: They only made 21.4 million bugs. Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Jul 2010 09:50 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "TheScullster" <phil(a)dropthespam.com> saying something like: >Does it do any lasting damage, running with a low oil level? Briefly, no. It depends on how much stress was on the bearings at the time. Otoh, I had a mate who tended to only top up his bike engine when the light flashed - he thought it was a level warning, but his bike didn't have one. Amazingly, it kept running fine.
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 13 Jul 2010 18:20 In article <cmro365nou8lpqhb5e6a61htpjmh0icg11(a)4ax.com>, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: > Briefly, no. It depends on how much stress was on the bearings at the > time. Otoh, I had a mate who tended to only top up his bike engine when > the light flashed - he thought it was a level warning, but his bike > didn't have one. Amazingly, it kept running fine. Don't bikes generally have roller bearings so a bit more tolerant of a short time without oil? -- *No sentence fragments * Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Jul 2010 19:11 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> saying something like: >In article <cmro365nou8lpqhb5e6a61htpjmh0icg11(a)4ax.com>, Grimly Curmudgeon ><grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: >> Briefly, no. It depends on how much stress was on the bearings at the >> time. Otoh, I had a mate who tended to only top up his bike engine when >> the light flashed - he thought it was a level warning, but his bike >> didn't have one. Amazingly, it kept running fine. > >Don't bikes generally have roller bearings so a bit more tolerant of a >short time without oil? Many of them did (still do) at that time, but his didn't. Roller bearing big ends and mains commonly run with 5psi oil pressure, and I believe a RB would have got away with it, for longer. Still a daft thing to do, of course.
From: Chris Whelan on 14 Jul 2010 03:53
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:20:15 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: [...] > Don't bikes generally have roller bearings so a bit more tolerant of a > short time without oil? Conversely, some of them rely almost 100% on oil for cooling. Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply. |