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Originally Posted by barry123400
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The only chance these engines have is installing a low oil pressure alarm. Still you will have to react fast if it goes off.....
These cars need alarms like many diesel engines already have.
I have always thought an engine shut down system was too dangerous but the best. They are best left for stationary diesel engines and train engines. Strange but one of my american gasoline cars years ago had a low oil shutoff circuit from the factory that shut the engine down.
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The Vega had one...
http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?1,105913
The alarm needs to be audio...like the important warnings in aircraft...There have been some long good threads on this forum about making one..
I agree that auto shut off is dangerous.... sometimes you might need to trash the engine to get off the road and out of harms way... engines can be replaced if you are alive to do it....
It also brings up the subject of a pre oiler ( like many aircraft have).. which can be used to test the functionality of the alarm at each start up of the engine...