At 12:56 AM 10/3/2002, Mark Keller wrote: >I have recently got the oil pressure buzzer. I'm thinking along the >line of the pressure relief valve sticking when some conditions are >right. Doesn't make sense to me, the relief valve should have been closed ever since the engine came up somewhere near operating temp.
>My conditions seem to be, high rpm then lower as I crest the hill, hot >oil temps as in a longer than three or four minute climb, and heavily >loaded. Have you tried it with less oil (like only 1/4 up from the fill mark)? There's good documentation that if these engines are overfilled even the slightest amount the oil temps go way up and the oil becomes aerated. Various people never run them above halfway on the stick. david -- David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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