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Old 11-17-2009, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Blas View Post
No, there is a little man in a small boat inside each reservoir, at a low fluid level he sounds an alarm. On early SPF cars he used a bugle, but it was difficult to hear over the engine sounds, so they changed it to a float with a buzzer. The design was upgraded on all cars by the factory - no charge. All the little men are all retired now, and living in Arizona...the small boats were all sold on eBay...
Dang, that gratuitous ball-busting got better with each edit. And I was only curious as to how it worked; we haven't had any really interesting mechanical issues around here for a while.
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