Anybody have info on the MotoGard?

[Mex-Busnut]

My bus has this already installed. On the web, I can only find applications to stationary motors. I want to find a wiring diagram and also want to know how I can tell if it is working properly. I am assuming that it must connect in some way to the water and oil temperature sensors, plus have a solenoid or something to shut the engine down?

Thanks in advance!

[pvcces]

Some equipment has a self-test routine that runs when the equipment is started up, such as a check engine light that comes on that proves the light is okay. With the Motogard, I would expect the light to come on when you turn the key and to go off after you start the engine. That would test both the oil pressure sensor and the light circuit.

Good luck on finding a circuit diagram. They are usually very simple to troubleshoot.

Tom Caffrey.

[Mex-Busnut]

Thanks, ToM!

No light comes on at any time. I guess I need to figure out the wiring.

[zubzub]

I'm guessing this has been disabled long ago to avoid inconvenient shutdowns.  If you watch your gauges and have a couple of buzzers on the key ones you don't need this.  That being said if I had it, and understood how it worked and how to bypass when needed I might use it for piece of mind when other people were driving.  It might avoid them the irritation of me constantly peering over their shoulder to check the gauges or worse yet, calling out from the bedroom wanting to know what the engine temp was.

[robertglines1]

does bulb burn? or is there one ?

[pvcces]

Maybe a good compromise might do the job. We had a boat that had an automatic shutdown relay. But, being a boat, sometimes you get into weather where you want to make the choice after an alarm sounds.

We used an ordinary ignition switch rigged up so that if the key was "on", only the alarms would sound. With the key "off", the engine would shut down when the signal was sent from the sensors.

As one old fisherman told me after I related how rough the water got around Helmcken Island, "Yah, it's a good ting that those diesels run upside down, or I never would have got out of there".

Some freeways might make you feel about the same, eh?

Tom Caffrey

[luvrbus]

MotoGard was just a warning light had no shutdown it just monitored 1 system I owned a BoMag mixer that had 3 on it, for high water temp, high hydraulic oil temp and low air they pretty common on off road and construction equipment back in the 80's haven't seen those in years

good luck