[DeTomaso] Something is so wrong with this

[Larry - Ohio Time]

Rob I have the same thing on my 89 Chevy pickup. I flip the switch in the
can to pressurize the oil system before starting and my pump starts up. I
need to rewire it to only do this with the key on. It was done for safety to
not pump if the motor stops. My Honda bike has one that works off of the
coil sparking.

This is something I wire up in my cars with an idiot light oil pressure
sender. If the pressure drops off I ground out the coil to stop the motor.

Larry (this I understand) - Cleveland



-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Rob Dumoulin
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:42 PM
To: Dave
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Something is so wrong with this

Back in the day, 1986, I owned an '86 Pontiac Fiero 2M6.  Fun and quick
car.  One morning, my battery was dead. The culprit was a faulty oil
pressure sensor.  The factory design had the car's fuel pump run as long as
there was oil pressure.  The ignition was off, car parked, but the fuel
pump kept running until the battery died.

I can only imagine a case where an accident shorted out the oil pressure
sensor and pumped fuel all over the place.

Rob DuMoulin
904.476.8744
rob at dumoulins.net
www.kbsi.co
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Dave <dave at damardirect.com> wrote:

> Same engineer source said " Ford had a faulty fuel sending unit design
> when he worked at Visteon.  The solution was to add a second faulty one to
> each car in hopes that at least one would work.
>
> Can't see the forest for the trees.
>
> Who's on first?"
>
> IndyDave
>
>