Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:00:36 -0700
Reply-To: Michael Snow <mwsnow@HOME.COM>
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From: Michael Snow <mwsnow@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: [DIESEL] How the heck to prime oil pump? (Vanagon D)
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You should be able to prime the pump by removing the oil filter mount and
pouring oil down through the top of the pump.
Mike Snow
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-diesel@vwfans.com [mailto:owner-diesel@vwfans.com]On Behalf
> Of Tobin Copley
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com; diesel@vwfans.com
> Subject: [DIESEL] How the heck to prime oil pump? (Vanagon D)
>
>
> Okay, frustrating problem here with my 1.6L diesel vanagon:
>
> Having had my oil pan off and oil pump off, on reassembly I can't
> seem to get the oil pump primed and pumping.
>
> I have removed the oil pressure sender and want to get oil through
> the engine (ie, oil pumping out the O/P sender hole) before firing
> the engine, to ensure I have lubrication before starting it.
>
> I've tried to prime it through cranking with the fuel shut-off
> solenoid disconnected from the injection pump, but even after 15 or
> 20 10 second goes at cranking the starter, no oil out the hole.
> Flattened battery, but no oil.
>
> I've tried removing the vacuum pump and spinning the oil pump
> directly with a 13mm socket attached to an electric drill, but still
> no oil out the O/P sender hole.
>
> What gives?
>
> I just replaced the main and rod bearings, and doubt very much I have
> a blockage somewhere, since I had oil pressure when I started the
> work. Low oil pressure at idle, okay, but oil pressure
> nonetheless--certainly not a blockage.
>
> I'm guessing I'm just sucking air somehow at the oil pump. Yes, I do
> have 4L of new oil in it. Jim Arnott had suggested I pack the pump
> and pick-up tube with Vaseline to help prime, and a) I thought that
> was a little weird (par for the course with Jim ;-) ), and b) I
> didn't have gobs of Vaseline lying around.
>
> Ideas? Should I pull the damn oil pan off again (aaargh!) and blow
> the big bucks on a bucket of Vaseline, or does someone else have
> other ideas?
>
> I really wasn't expecting to have this problem!
>
> Thanks,
>
> T.
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tobin Copley Bowen Island, BC, Canada 49deg 23'N-123deg 19'W
>
> '82 Westfalia 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
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