Re: Petcock Question

Posted by CNKS on March 14, 2005 at 06:39:48 from (204.249.178.138):

In Reply to: Re: Petcock Question posted by Andy Martin on March 14, 2005 at 05:26:50:

Whatever works for you, the manual says not to run it below the bottom petcock. Again, the problem is if it uses oil, and is getting worse, you don't know how much remains until you refill it. I had a car once that used a quart of oil every 700-1000 miles from day one. I knew when it was a quart low because the oil light came on under hard braking. Of course the H or M doesn't nose dive much when you brake. My folks had another one that wolfed down a quart in the first few hundred miles and then didn't use any more. We ran it that way, then the engine finally quit 20 miles from home one day -- but, it had run 9 years before that. I imagine a quart below the lower petcock is still safe, I simply don't want to run it that way. The manufacturer probably builds in safety factors to allow some margin of error.

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