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29th January 2010, 09:49 PM
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Big boo boo!
As some of you have probably read in my other post i have been trying to get my rev counter working. Aswell as this, a fuel pressure gauge i bought has been giving me some chew
 It turned out that the sender was faulty and had random resistance whenever it felt like it So late last night, i removed the sender and guage and put them back into the packaging to return today. Then after finishing work today i was fiddling with the rev counter again and wired it up and turned on the engine........................... with no oil pressure switch in  At least i know its making good pressure anyway  Only ran it for about 10secs before i realised that about 2 litres of oil had pumped out!!!!!!! Luckily no harm done just a mess for me to clean up  Its the 3rd "interesting" moment ive had in my garage since starting my roadster build The 2nd was when i finished welding a wishbone and lifted up my welding screen to find the bin on fire! The 1st was when i got it running on edis and turned it off and it kept running, even after i disconnected the battery! And now this one! Hope it cheers someone up laughing at my expense Last edited by mark : 30th January 2010 at 02:31 PM. Reason: typo! 
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29th January 2010, 10:13 PM
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I have that t-shirt.
We put a scrapyard oil guage on a m8's mini back in the early 90's .. And forgot the sender. That jetted a nice stream of crude all over his mum and dads nice clean driveway  And 5 years ago I had been doing some work on our MK1 golf. I got in to check it ran ok. It started nicely. And then I got all confused as the world went dark and the windscreen became dark. The oil line from the guage had split That took a bit of washing down.TT
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30th January 2010, 11:20 AM
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Great one Mark, sounds like you really having great fun behind them frowns.
Just make sure you get your car read for 9th April...........  btw, what is 1nd and 2st........... 
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30th January 2010, 02:34 PM
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I was on the newcastle brown ale when i typed that! I have corrected it so i dont look like even more of a fool! And yes i will try and get my car as you say "read" for the 9th april
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