Thread: "ENGINE OIL LEVEL MONITOR SYSTEM FAULT"

Originally Posted by lpj

....................... At the end of the day, the oil needs to be monitored so it will have to be done.

Maybe someone should invent something like a rod that goes into the sump and shows the oil level after it has been withdrawn, cleaned and dipped.

Could be called a 'dipstick'.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Maybe someone should invent something like a rod that goes into the sump and shows the oil level after it has been withdrawn, cleaned and dipped.

Could be called a 'dipstick'.

DL

Only a dipstick would suggest such a thing

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Maybe someone should invent something like a rod that goes into the sump and shows the oil level after it has been withdrawn, cleaned and dipped.

Could be called a 'dipstick'.

DL

But then an engineer will think that a metal rod (e.g. said "dipstick") can be replaced with a sensor that can check the engine oil and give a readout on the "instrument cluster"

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

But then an engineer will think that a metal rod (e.g. said "dipstick") can be replaced with a sensor that can check the engine oil and give a readout on the "instrument cluster"

This has been done to death. Let’s unwind this, then unwind EFI because points were the best thing ever. Oh and fuel injectors are going to fail, so carby it is. Oh but they were sooooo reliable.

These sensors fail very rarely, but I agree they’re a costly one to repair if they do go. It’s better to have something constantly checking your level than once ever whenever it gets done.

Await the expected flaming.

re; Eric's post:

And then people who don't know how to open a bonnet, or don't want to because they wouldn't have a clue what they were looking at just have to look at the dash.

It's a full disconnect from crucial reality.

There's even a post earlier where someone has wondered whether the sensor in question is contaminated with dust, FFS it's inside the engine.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

And then people who don't know how to open a bonnet, or don't want to because they wouldn't have a clue what they were looking at just have to look at the dash.

It's a full disconnect from crucial reality.

There's even a post earlier where someone has wondered whether the sensor in question is contaminated with dust, FFS it's inside the engine.

cheers, DL

It has some pluses. It can tell you mid drive it’s low and to shut down the engine. A dipstick can’t do that. Coming from someone who had an engine with a dry sump setup that sprung a leak, I’d have loved to have something to tell me that my oil tank was empty, before the oil pressure light flashed up for two seconds before my engine lunched itself

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

It has some pluses. It can tell you mid drive it’s low and to shut down the engine. A dipstick can’t do that. Coming from someone who had an engine with a dry sump setup that sprung a leak, I’d have loved to have something to tell me that my oil tank was empty, before the oil pressure light flashed up for two seconds before my engine lunched itself

How many stock cars have dry sumps? Not trying to be funny.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

How many stock cars have dry sumps? Not trying to be funny.

cheers, DL

Well not many, but another mate lost his engine, not dry sump, weirdly at the exact same time as me, on the same trip, to an oil filter seal blowing out. Winning Powerball and being struck by lightening odds for that one.

I agree, if you can keep all engine oil elements contained the likelihood of a hose failure are minimised