Help me out here please listers. Am I the only who remembers a previous disscussion about putting oil guages on SOHC4s? Wasn't the sumation; that it was a bad/unneccessary thing and the death of many motors due to failure of the connection/ line/guage next to your foot dumping out all the oil and the engine seizing due to oil starvation? Further, that the guage next to your foot put your eyes focused on the worst possible area while riding, from a safety standpoint?
Was it a dream? Fantasy? I have to tell you that I love instrumentation. And, one of my bikes has a guage down by the left foot. I didn't put it on. But, I have repaired oil leaks there. I have this gut feeling that the probablility of an oil pump failure is so low that adding an oil pressure gauge and lines into the reliability equation actually increases the probability of an oiling failure. I have to admit, though, that I have a very unimpressive test case of just one. Anyone care to share some stories about how having the gauge saved their engine and was worth the distraction and diverted attention from road/traffic conditions? FWIW. Just trying to expose an alternative point of view... Feel free to express your opinion. :-) Cheers, Lloyd SOHC4 #11 72 500, 74 550, 75 550K, 75 550F, 76 550F, 77 550F X2, 78 550K, 77 750F, 78 750F phil jones wrote: >Hi, I was interested to to read about oil pressure gauges for 750 fours.I >received a smashing E-M<ail from 'Brian Hoover' in Utah-many thanks-who also >supplied me with a pic of a gauge.I would daerly love to get hold of an oil >gauge for my 1974 CB 750 K2,if anyone out there has one to sell please >contact me.In the UK would be easier but all offers considered,thanks!! > >
