Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:58:08 -0700
Reply-To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
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So true, BTDT. The ECU cuts off the fuel injectors at 5200 rpm, and that gets your attention!
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of David Beierl
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:29 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
>
> I accidentally got up to 5100RPM in 3rd gear for about 10 seconds on a
> long climb. Engine sounded great. But I felt ill after I realised
> what I had done.
You didn't hurt it, there's a limiter at 5200 rpm. You're not the first person (nor the last) to forget to shift out of third on a climbing highway entrance.
No doubt best not to run it that way for hours at a time, but you're officially allowed to go there.
Yrs,
d
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Update:
> Oil light flickered briefly coming off the highway for gas after about
> 2200 km of driving on a fresh oil and filter change (Castrol Edge
> Titanium Synthetic 5W-50). By flickering, I mean a totally random on
> and off pattern at up to two or three Hz, for example.
>
> I am guessing that means I have low oil pressure.
>
> Questions:
> -What kind of highway speeds do people feel comfortable in sustaining?
> -What are preferred oil brands and grade these days?
>
> I accidentally got up to 5100RPM in 3rd gear for about 10 seconds on a
> long climb. Engine sounded great. But I felt ill after I realised
> what I had done.
>
> gabby
> '86 wbx
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Gabriel Hourtouat
> <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Can't seem to navigate the list from my phone so can't find your
> > specific replies. Found this message in my sent box. Anyhow...
> >
> > Thanks for your wide range of helpful comments.
> >
> > Status update: no further oil pressure events after remove, clean
> > and reassemble oil piston spring assembly, and a change of oil.
> >
> > I ended up changing the spring anyways even though there are strong
> > logical arguments that it is NOT the spring. (BTW: I sourced the
> > spring from the local Porsche dealership as VW wouldn't supply it.
> > It came with
> a
> > part number revision: same number with a letter C instead of B at
> > the
> end.).
> >
> > So, I will see if the oil alarm gets triggered again as the oil degrades.
> > I guess that would indicate one of the other problems: bearing
> > clearances going bye-bye, or oil pump, or ?
> >
> > Otherwise, maybe there was some gunk in the oil pressure relief
> > system that keeping it from re-seating properly?
> >
> > Need to add oil though. (It seems to be dripping out somewhere near
> > the engine block to transmission housing, right onto the exhaust
> > pipe and bracket which is right there. About half a litre has
> > dripped out over the last 1000km.)
> >
> > Cheers, Gabby
> > 1986 Westy, 2.1L WBX manual Tx
> > (Currently, we are near St Simeon, Quebec. )
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 29, 2017, at 8:53 PM, Gabriel Hourtouat
> > > <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I love Gerry.vanagon.com. Who has a new oil pressure regulator
> > > spring
> > to ship me in Oakville, Ontario? I need it early next week.
> > >
> > > Story:
> > >
> > > On the road with family, dog, bikes, canoe and all the ancillary
> > > gear,
> > just 40km short of our destination for the week: Samuel de Champlain
> > provincial park. Oil light comes on, flickering, no buzzer. Strange,
> > yet unpleasant. A hint of lemons on the palate.
> > >
> > > Limp into the park. Mull it over. No buzzer. Manual (1986) says
> > > there
> > should be a buzzer. Maybe it's been supplanted by buzzards circling
> > overhead? Nah, it's just broken. Why wouldn't it be broken?
> > >
> > > Flickering light -- loose wire shorting out the Pressure switch?
> > > Is it
> > normally open? Normally closed? Ahh, I don't know. Can't find any
> > loose wires? What if it was cheap oil that lost viscosity too soon?
> > Maybe an oil change?
> > >
> > > Get a basic oil change pan and some oil? Use it to check that spring?
> > Is there a spring??? Where is that thing anyway? How come I never
> noticed
> > anything down there? Wish my eyes weren't shut whenever I look
> > under the van. Wish I was someone else.
> > >
> > > Dig a 6" deep hole in the gravel and pine needles under the
> > > engine so
> I
> > can use my heftiest flat head screwdriver to release the screw which
> surely
> > hasn't been turned in 31 years. Vice grips turn the screwdriver. It
> breaks
> > free -- HOORAY!
> > >
> > > Hmm spring is 60mm long. But how long should it be??? 60 mm
> > > sounds
> > pretty good, pretty nominal.
> > >
> > > Biggest challenge left: use my phone to mine the info from The
> > > List. I
> > am a digital immigrant.
> > >
> > > Did it: 62.3mm!
> > >
> > > Gabby
> > >
> >
>
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