You lose your oil pressure indication, and you pump your oil overboard through the capillary tube. Generally speaking, mechanical oil pressure gauges using a hose or tube to the transducer or gauge should have a restricting orifice in the fitting at the port on the engine. Typically the restriction is a .040" hole. Easy to make your own, but here's an example sold by Aircraft Spruce. <https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/eppages/oilfuelflow05-11908.php>
-Jeff Scott Arkansas Ozarks > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021 at 1:43 AM > From: "Gary Sack" <garys...@gmail.com> > To: "KRnet" <krnet@list.krnet.org> > Subject: KR>Oil pressure > > Does anyone know what happens if the plastic capillary tube running back to > the cockpit gage breaks? If I lose signal and mm ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
