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Not a good sight.
See anything wrong with this picture?? The day I flew and saw the rainbows I landed and got fuel. Shortly after takeoff I looked over and saw this. I think the rainbow was a sign. What a sick feeling. I stumbled across this picture in another file. This resulted from overpressurizing the sending unit when I had the filter between the pump and cooler. I wanted to see how high it would get when cold ( 60 degrees) and it pegged the needle all the way around almost 330 degrees, well past 100. This showed up later as a ruptured diaphram in the sender and this episode is the result.
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Comment by Chumphol Sirinavin on July 12, 2009 at 1:14am
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Gauges, when working propperly, may give warning of an emergency in progress, if monitored closely. Too many gauges may cause too many concerns. When a needle goes zero, I look and wait for second indication. But whenever it climbs up from green, I recite my emergency shut-down and landing, sweating a bit. When it climbs to high yellow or above, I sweat a lot more, with a short prayer. :^)
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Comment by Wayne Clagg on July 8, 2009 at 8:31am
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I had beat the stuffing out of the panel by the time I took this picture. Thankfully I was over Kanawha River Valley when this happened and there are huge river bottoms to land in. One of the few places around home where the ground is flat !
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Comment by Sebastien Heintz on July 8, 2009 at 8:10am
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It's time to start knocking on the gauge and looking for a place to land:)
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Yes the sender had failed. I began feeling better as time went on because I knew there was no way the engine would have stayed together without oil as long as it had. It is funny how your mind works, after dealing with the emergency I realized I had a camera in the seat so I took this picture, just in case. I had forgotten about it until clearing off unwanted pics and this is how I found it. Its fuzzy because i was shaking so hard!!!
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Comment by Tim Garrett on July 7, 2009 at 6:01pm
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Oil pressure sender/sensor failed?
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