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Date:         Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:18:49 -0400
Reply-To:     rc welsh <curt_welsh@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         rc welsh <curt_welsh@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      fluctuating oil press! advice please..
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hey folks...wouldn't you know it..i finally have a month off between jobs
and now the vanagon super-trip is courting disaster! My oil pressure buzzer
started sounding about 2 days ago at weird intervals (not just when you
decellerate from highway speeds) my analog VDO gauge started loping between
40 and 20 psi @ 4000 rpm last night as well...confirming my worst vanagon
fears...that my oil pressure was ACTUALLY low.  I stopped in Cortez, CO
today and changed the oil and Filter myself (MANN bus depot filter/20-w-50
weight oil) and noticed some "grit" in the old oil...my 86 GTi always had
grit in its oil but never the vanagon! Is this "grit" my bearing's eating
themsleves up..or is it normal after 2 weeks of desert driving to have junk
in the oil? Am I on the brink of disaster here?! should i point the bus home
and put AAA on speed dial? How long have folks run their vanagons with low
oil pressure (say 20 psi @ 4000 rpm) before throwing rods, breaking cases,
etc.?


If you see my gray '87 GL (2 kayaks/bike/3green bins up top, vermont plates)
along a lonesome colorado/utah byway, stop and help me push...I need to be
in California by the 30th.


-Curt.


curt_welsh@hotmail.com
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