Date:         Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:19:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Don in North Carolina <vanagondon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don in North Carolina <vanagondon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 87 Vanagon, 2.1, oil buzzer?
Comments: To: VWNut Hawk <vwnut@hawkcomputing.com>
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On 7/25/05, VWNut Hawk <vwnut@hawkcomputing.com> wrote:
> I've got a real good runner I got from Peoria.
> After it's good and warm and I slow down from
> high way speeds a buzzer comes on in the dash.
> Not all the time.   I have plenty of oil and
> the engine isn't running hot.
> I haven't checked the wiring.
> I have a good German oil filter.  Mahle I think.
> I have both Mann and Mahle here.
> The oil may be 5W30.
> I haven't changed it yet.
> I usually use 10W40.
> Thanks.
> John.

John,

Use 15W-50 or 20W-50 oil, 10W-40 is too thin (and 5W-30 is thin enough
that I would worry about my bearings...).  Conventional or synthetic,
your call.  I change conventional oil every 3,000 miles and synthetic
oil every 5,000 miles (but that is just me!).

-- 
Don in Reidsville, NC
1986 Kawasaki Concours
1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia)
"Why do they call it a fixed income, if mine is always broke?"