Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:07:46 -0400
Reply-To: David Bohannan <fjazzbass@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David Bohannan <fjazzbass@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Read your manual: Oil pressure nonsense
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Hey Rich..
Be sure to read what Dennis wrote on this topic...
Another thing to add is that my idle is typically 750 or so (not sure how
accurate the tach is) when this occurs after highway speed...
I am in the process of trying to get my idle up to 850 +/- 50 according to
Bentley...
I have already turned the idle screw out (counter clockwise) 1.5 turns and
it rests JUST above the 750 mark...I think I'll go one more full turn before
I hit the road tomorrow...
Dave
85 GL "Baby Bus"
85 "Goldy"
On 9/14/06, Rich Bennington <rich.bennington@charter.net> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> Thanks for this post! I've experienced the same flicker on my 1.9, but
> didn't have a user manual. I read somewhere that VW made a replacement
> pressure switch that goes on at .25 bar instead of .3 bar due to people
> worrying!
>
> My worry got me to the point of getting a sensor and meter which I am now
> installing! The single switch on the 1.9 doesn't tell you whether
> pressure
> goes up enough at higher rpm, so I guess it is not a wasted effort!
>
> Rich
>
> <
> -----Original Message-----
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> David Bohannan
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:07 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Read your manual: Oil pressure nonsense
>
> Ok,
>
> Here's another one of those instances where if I would have read my
> stinkin
> manual I wouldn't have been sweating for so long...
>
> I thought my 1.9 was wearing thin...my oil pressure light flickers after
> hot
> runs at idle...you know, when idling through toll plazas, etc...It never
> did
> it once I accelerated again, but, it did it...scared the poopsters out of
> me
> at times...hate warning lights! What's strange is that when I had the
> heads
> done the cylinder walls looked great...little or no wear...160K miles...go
> figure...I was worrying about bad bearings or whatever....
>
> In any case, all this towing talk lately got me looking at my manual for
> my
> 85 to see if I could find anything on towing...I did not, but I DID find
> this sentence:
>
> "An occasional flickering of the oil pressure warning light when the
> engine
> is idling after a long high speed trip is no cause for concern if the
> light
> goes out upon acceleration."
>
> Note to self, read the stinkin manual...
>
> Dave
> 85 GL "Baby Bus"
> 85 "Goldy"
> >
>
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Dave - KC9FYM
http://fjazzbass.blogspot.com
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