Date:         Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:25:22 -0500
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: How the heck to prime oil pump?  (Vanagon D)
Comments: To: tobin.copley@UBC.CA
Content-Type: text/plain

Remove the oil filter mounting where it mounts to the block with a
gasket,(you should have the filter, mounting base, oil cooler off) take a
turkey baster or pump type oil can and prine it with STP down that hole,
put everything back together. Crank it up! You should have oil pumping.
If you dont have preasure within 45 seconds of the engine starting-------
shut it down!

I know you're talking about a Diesel.

Stan Wilder

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:37:02 -0700 Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
writes:
> OK, this is getting ridiculous.
>
> Rocket scientist that I am, turned out I *was* turning the oil pump
> shaft in the wrong direction.  I don't know what I was
> thinking--guess I'd had my head under the bus too long.  This
> morning
> went out, hooked up the drill to the oil pump shaft, turned it
> *clockwise* this time (thanks Rachel!), and after 30 seconds or so
> the drill started bogging down and I got a gusher from the oil
> pressure sender hole.
>
> Yay!  My four year old helper and I did a little dance, and we went
> to go get rags to clean up the oil mess.
>
> Cleaned up the oil mess, and went to spin the oil pump again to make
> sure I had oil up to the sender hole before threading in the sender,
> and...  nothing.  30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds.  No oil.
>
> What gives?
>
> I undid the plug at the pre-drilled mount on the oil cooler/filter
> housing, and poured about 3/4 of a cup of oil in there before it
> filled.  Spun the oil pump again.  Still no oil pressure, even out
> the mount on the oil cooler.
>
> I'm re-using my old pump, but I'm rather confused here.  Why would I
> get oil once--and only once?  If the pump were bad, why would I have
> gotten a healthy gush of oil at all?  The oil level in the pan
> according to the dipstick is full, and the vehicle is level.  The
> pump pushed oil for me once, but will not do it again.
>
> I was worried that maybe that first gush knocked some obnoxious gunk
> into a Very Important Oil Passage (I suppose I still am, a bit), but
> if that's a case, why would I get no oil spurting out even from the
> hole in the oil cooler/filter housing?
>
> Thanks all for all the help so far on this.  It's nice to know I'm
> not the only one who has had similar problems--although my
> difficulties are beginning to become ridiculous.
>
> Thanks!
>
> T.
>
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> Tobin Copley        Bowen Island, BC, Canada      49deg 23'N-123deg
> 19'W
>
> '82 Westfalia 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
> '97 son Russell                                   =============
> '99 daughter Margaret                            /_| |_L| |__|:|
> clatter
>                              SPEED KILLS!        {.            .|
> clatter!
>                          Drive a Vanagon diesel   ~-()-==----()-~

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