Chronicles of Barron

The Ferrari racing van is fantastic! (What are you going to do with it???)

As for the gold plenum, ... oh, never mind.

 

Well this is annoying, I hardly drive this car anymore as the GT4 is the daily, oil pressure light comes on, has pressure according to the gauge, rev it and the light goes off, comes on when idling. Oil is topped up, running 20/50. Ideas? Do I really trust the pressure light?
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Try a new sending unit? Or set the idle at 3k? LOL JK

 

+1 -- but it's the oil pressure switch that you want to buy (not the oil pressure sender). Your oil pressure gauge reading a reasonable value at idle (and increasing as it should as RPM increases) is near-proof that it's just a problem with the oil pressure switch.

 

I’m hoping I have a spare in my junk, I have a few sending units but that’s working, time to work on this one again
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Can you swap it out with the one from the GT4?

 

So I’ve resurrected the Original, it just sits and sits. Battery gave up the ghost so I went and did it again, Optima, obnoxious price but it did last a long long time so another one. While I was in there I treated the surface rust on the tray with converter and put it back together, went out for a cruise, oil light still comes on, but it should reliably keep being on because I never changed the sender. I have one new in the box but I’ll need to make the bent tool to switch it out easy. Since I own my rental shop now I’ve decided to make things easier and sink the lift in the floor. I’m keeping the house and shop original to the property, it’ll be sold eventually since it’s 9 acres on the lake road. Around here everything gets bulldozed. I’m debating putting the Euro up for trade in the classifieds for something with a rebuilt title and interesting. Preferably carbed. I’m a jackass but not the kind that’s going to chop up this car to make something else. The Outlaw build has me wanting to do another
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Ooooh I always liked your euro 308!!

 

I have the same lift so am interested to ask how deep you’re digging the pit?

thank you, John

 

I went down 10” then brought it up to 4”, lift is 5 so 1” proud. No more wood needed to drive onto or worry I’ll shear an oil plug
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Not much to report here except I’ve been driving it again after months of zippo, sure do like it. Still has annoying slow non existent windows, dripping shift shaft and wonky headlights but on a bypass switch. Everyone should have a 308
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Small update, went ahead and did a belt change and fluids this weekend, just going through the car and having some fun. I’m sure the old belts were still good for another 10 to 30 years. Now… Who wants to argue about what kind of oil I put in the motor
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Hey, that's a slick trick to lock the pulleys. I haven't seen that one before.