Oil Pressure Gauge - Chevrolet Corvette 1953 Operation Manual

AMMETER
The ammeter
(fig.
6) shows the rate at which the battery is
being charged or discharged. The generator is equipped
with a regulator which
controls the charge accord·
ing to battery requirements.
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When the generator is sup-
~
plying more than the cur-
I
rent deman.d, the ammeter
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shown if the demand of the
eq!Jipment switched on is
greater than the generator
output. When battery is
fully charged, the charging
rate
will be
low, thus giving an indication of the condition
of the battery.
OIL PRESSURE GAUGE
The oil pressure gauge (fig. 7) is installed primarily as an
indi.cator to show wheth.er or
not the oil pump is working
and does not necessarily indicate the condition or quantity
of oil in the crankcase. The oil pressure gauge should always
indicate pressure when the engine
is
running. If no pressure
2
is
indicated, stop the en·
gine immediately and bave
the cause corrected. When
starting a cold engine, i
will
be
noted that the oi
pressure gauge
will
register
a higb oil pressure.
As the
engine warms up, the
p~
sure will drop until it
reaches a point where
changes to higber speech
will raise
the pressure very
little
if at all.
If oil pres-
sure registers abnorma1Jy
high after the engine is
thoroughly warmed up, it
may indicate the possibility
of plugged oil lines and
passages and should
be
in-
spected to determine the
cause.
CLOCK
Fi,.
B-Clock
An illuminated electric
clock (fig. 8) is located
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the right of the oil pressure gauge. The clock is set by pull-
ing out and turning the knob at the bOllom of the dial.