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My little teapot is red, is this a problem?
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Don.S
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Means the tea is hot and ready.
Tags
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That’s something you don’t want to see….good thing you saw it, a younger person may have have thought it was part of the lighting for a stereo equalizer 
I’m really hoping it’s just a sensor…
I’m really hoping it’s just a sensor…
Welder Dave
Senior Member
I'd be getting some good gauges out and checking things real close. That new engine cost a few bucks. Hopefully just a bad sensor. I'm not sure what Liebherr parts costs but can't be more than Champion grader parts. I bought a new fuel sender and even with a "deal" it was $225. Normal price was $255. There is nothing special about it at all. It doesn't even reach all the way to the bottom of the tank. The tallest tank it has for adjusting is 24" but the grader tank is 30". It will at least give me an idea when to fill it. I don't want to find out the hard way how hard the grader is to prime when it's -20. Something engine related is much more critical.
hvy 1ton
Senior Member
I'm breaking out the good whisky and willing it to be the sending unit on your behalf.
Don.S
Senior Member
I am pretty positive the tea is hot and ready.
Midnightmoon
Senior Member
The tea pot only applies when your in england. Be worried when the coffee pot light comes on
crane operator
Senior Member
The gauge shows oil pressure by yellow bars, its usually up three bars. I was coming home from a job and it dropped to two, and then one, and then the red light came on.
When that happens, my worry level tends to increase.
When we lost the engine in it a few years ago, due to a oil line rupture, the sending unit was actually stuck, and the new engine I bought, its sending unit didn't work correctly either. So in the interest of saving my blood pressure, we installed hose and a standard fluid gauge in the lower cab.
So the whole time the electric gauge was doing its dive toward the cellar, the mechanical gauge was telling me everything is fine. I did pull over and make sure I wasn't puking out oil, just to be sure....
When that happens, my worry level tends to increase.
When we lost the engine in it a few years ago, due to a oil line rupture, the sending unit was actually stuck, and the new engine I bought, its sending unit didn't work correctly either. So in the interest of saving my blood pressure, we installed hose and a standard fluid gauge in the lower cab.
So the whole time the electric gauge was doing its dive toward the cellar, the mechanical gauge was telling me everything is fine. I did pull over and make sure I wasn't puking out oil, just to be sure....
kshansen
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Mechanical gauges can fail too but having one for a "second opinion" on critical items, like oil pressure, is not a bad idea!
I got a kick out of learning that in some cars and trucks with "gauges" as apposed to just "idiot lights" that some of those "gauges" were controlled by the same switch that was used to operate a light! In other words if the sender senses any pressure the gauge would read a little over 1/2 way up the scale it was all for looks!
Good you know/knew what's really happening. I was kidding and assumed you did know what the tea pot was.
When those things first showed up in the 70s some of them were a real mystery, they meant something to someone but not me.
Joe H
When those things first showed up in the 70s some of them were a real mystery, they meant something to someone but not me.
Joe H
Birken Vogt
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Being a European product they have to have indicators for 10 different language speakers plus probably those that can't read.
We have some European equipment we work on, and it can be a mystery what they are trying to communicate through a dot matrix display of some little icon much harder to interpret than the teapot there.
We have some European equipment we work on, and it can be a mystery what they are trying to communicate through a dot matrix display of some little icon much harder to interpret than the teapot there.