Date:         Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:27:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Paul Rogers <wognacious@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Paul Rogers <wognacious@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Oil Pressure Switch ....gone
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Yesterday I took my Vanagon, which my GF has somehow tricked me into letting her use as her daily driver, for a drive over the Altamont Pass to do an errand. Well all was fine and dandy on the way up but on the downhill side, actually on the flat rsection after the downhill, I noticed a power loss. Fortunately I was near an off ramp and was able to make it to the parking lot of a Home Depot. After looking around the engine compartment I noticed a hole with a little pool of oil fairly close to the distributor and under the pressure regulator. So I got out my Bentley and soon came to the realization that there should be a pressure regulator there. Let me go back a bit, the idiot light did go on earlier, but it had flickered a little in the past and I was hoping that maybe a gremlin was at fault. Wrong assumption on my part. I was able to get a 10mm bolt and neoprene washer from the HD and drove
back home. The thing is I can't find the wire or where it should be attached. Oh yea my Vanagon is a 1985 with a stock 1.9L in the engine compartment. Any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated, except the obvious one about me being an idiot. At least I caught it before the oil all ran out.
TIA, 
Paul in Tracy, CA

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