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Geez, wouldn't you think that someone would make parts that actually LAST? Yesterday, while on a longish drive to help my son buy a replacement car, the Herald started acting up. Well, not too badly, just that the oil pressure warning light seemed to be flickering on at ever-higher engine revs. Fortunately, I do also have an oil pressure gauge installed, and looking at that told me that I really had nothing to worry about!
Anyway, I was home this morning, due to an April Fool's snowstorm, which thankfully turned out to be very minor. But I took the opportunity to run down into the barn and "borrow" another oil pressure light sender from a spare engine. I popped it on to my Herald, and all's well again -- NO "green light" so to speak (except when it's supposed to be on, that is!)
But really...only 49 years for a Smiths warning light sender? Admittedly, that's longer service than the one I had to replace years ago on my GT6+; that sender was only about eight years old! We'll see how long the one I just installed -- probably from about 1963 -- will last!
Anyway, I was home this morning, due to an April Fool's snowstorm, which thankfully turned out to be very minor. But I took the opportunity to run down into the barn and "borrow" another oil pressure light sender from a spare engine. I popped it on to my Herald, and all's well again -- NO "green light" so to speak (except when it's supposed to be on, that is!)
But really...only 49 years for a Smiths warning light sender? Admittedly, that's longer service than the one I had to replace years ago on my GT6+; that sender was only about eight years old! We'll see how long the one I just installed -- probably from about 1963 -- will last!