Date:         Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:45:31 -0700
Reply-To:     Rich Bennington <rich.bennington@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         Rich Bennington <rich.bennington@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Read your manual: Oil pressure nonsense
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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

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
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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