Low Oil - Lasting Damage?
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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 14 Jul 2010 13:38 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "shazzbat" <shazzbat(a)spamlessness.fsnet.co.uk> saying something like: >I had an old air-cooled VW in the 70s, and I never checked the oil, just put >some in when the oil light started to flash going round corners. I did that >for 3 years, no probs. An old cooking VW lump likely has less load on the bearings. >The OP won't have hurt his engine, no oil pressure doesn't mean no oil in >the bearings. It means the pressurised wedge of oil has gone. Metal-to-metal isn't far away. > Although prolonged use like that would not be a good idea. Indeed. He'd been doing it for a while before I noticed.
From: MattF on 14 Jul 2010 15:23 "Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:8a33qqFfmgU5(a)mid.individual.net... > Elder <carl.robson(a)bouncing-czechs.com> gurgled happily, sounding much > like they were saying: > >>> > Does it do any lasting damage, running with a low oil level? Our >>> > Mazda 6 ran low enough on oil recently for the oil light to flash on >>> > once. > >>> It's not a low oil LEVEL light, it's a low oil PRESSURE light. > >> Don't know about Mazda, but a lot of Jap cars have both, an Orange do >> something about it level light, and a Red, you are so fucked, pressure >> light. > > Furry muff. > > I've never once seen a low oil level light. Oil level gauges, yes. Idiot > light, no. But I tend to avoid Japanese cars. My Mk3 Escort GL had a whole array of warning lights such as brake pad level, screenwash and low oil level. The oil one worked using a special dipstick connected to the electrics. MattF
From: Mike Tomlinson on 17 Jul 2010 17:09 In article <MPG.26a6691c3d2833139896ee(a)news.individual.net>, Elder <carl.robson(a)bouncing-czechs.com> writes > a Red, you are so fucked, pressure >light. aka "Idiot light", only found on French cars. Comes on when the engine is already fucked. -- (\__/) (='.'=) Bunny's thinking about giving Windows 7 (")_(") a go despite what he's said about it...
From: steve robinson on 18 Jul 2010 06:26 Chris Whelan wrote: > 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 They also rely on the same oil to lubricate the gearbox
From: Chris Whelan on 18 Jul 2010 06:35
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:26:02 +0000, steve robinson wrote: > Chris Whelan wrote: > >> 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 > > They also rely on the same oil to lubricate the gearbox Indeed, as do some cars of course. Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply. |