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Date:         Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:06:51 EST
Reply-To:     ArcticWesty@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Cooper <ArcticWesty@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OIL PRESSURE LIGHT/ALARM
Comments: To: jromas@columbus.rr.com, dhaynes@optonline.net,
          midwesty@midwest.net, jjensen@sprintmail.com, a003175@ezo.net
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Thank you to those of you who responded already.

As some of you surmized, ArcticWesty resides up north. Anchorage, Alaska in fact. I am running winter-weight 5W30 oil right now. I have 3/4 of a case of 20W50 for the summer. I just replaced both the pressure sensors, and used my Bently manual to make sure I had the right ones. (in the right place!) I guess my next step is to put a manual oil pressure gauge on it, and warm it up to see what is going on.

My "educated guess" is that I really DO have a oil pressure problem. I could try a sticky oil additive, but I think I would only delay the problem, make the car more difficult to start when it is 10 below, and possibly end up with a catastrophic failure a couple of months down the road.

I will keep in touch. Keep those ideas coming.

John Cooper


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