Listees, I have a problem here with a '85 Vanagon I picked up a few months ago, that was running extremely well until about 3 days ago. The vehicle has 105K on it, about 4 month old heads, 4-speed, had great compression, didnt use any oil, ran cool, and I used it as a daily driver. I was driving down the freeway one evening, van ran smooth as silk, doing about 70, when all of a sudden the oil light came on! I instantly threw in the clutch and killed the engine, coasted off the exit and pulled into a gas station parking lot to assess the damage. Pulled the dipstick, nice and clean oil all upto the mark. No oil leaks, underside of the engine nice and dry............ Turned the key, thinking it was a bad sender, and the engine fired up instantly, however, horribly loud clacking from the lifters, and the oil light stayed on.............. Towed it back, ran a pressure test on it, zero, so I pulled off the pressure relief valve, it fell out smoothly, and the spring was nice and strong, checked again, same thing. So I pulled off the oil pump, put in a brand new one, fired it up, same horrible clatter, so I checked the pressure again, ZERO!!!!!!!! What the ****??????? BTW, I use all OEM oil filters, so that's not a problem................Any ideas or suggestions would be highly appreciated, as this was a great running van, till now, and it's got me puzzled. I sure dont want to tear the engine apart unless I absolutely have to. TIA, Vic Ahmed |
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