The same thing happened to me last week ...highway off ramp... short oil light/buzzer. I just checked and the oil is slightly overfilled. > > From: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM> > Date: 2006/02/15 Wed PM 10:51:46 EST > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Is it normal... > > WOW!!! You just answered a question I've been waiting to ask the list. I've been getting the oil pressure buzzer and light after a run on the highway as I decelerate on the off-ramp. Goes away when I accelerate, and doesn't happen at all around town. Coincidently this started after my tech replaced the oil cooler seal (had a leak). It's all very clear now..they overfilled it. The buzzer/light doesn't happen much...should I just let it burn off or should the excess be removed? The dipstick shows very little overage...just topped off. > Thank you sooo much for solving this little mystery! > Anthony > '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) > > Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote: Usual causes are overfillitis or piston rings not doing there job. Some > oil vapor is normal. But if you get massive amounts into the intake > track, something is wrong. Keep the oil level between the marks on the > dipstick Do not attempt to keep the level at the top mark. The top mark > is not the full mark. It is the maximum do not ever exceed not matter > what mark. The Vanagon engine is extremely sensitive to overfilling. > When over full, oil temps go up, viscosity goes down. Oil lights and > buzzers get tested after long highway runs. Very high speeds make thing > worse as while the viscosity goes down the temps go up some more and the > vicious cycle goes until you get the buzzer or a rod out the top. All > this while the water temp is perfectly normal. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf > Of Geza Polony > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:19 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Is it normal... > > to have oil inside the AFM body? I just took mine apart to fix vacuum > leaks > and found oil all over the place. Shouldn't there be some kind of > one-way > valve between the crankcase and the vacuum hoses? > > Cleaned it all up, of course, but what will stop this from happening > again? > > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > |
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