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• Re: No compression
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:35:05 -0500
  ...Don't be tempted to mount an oil temp sender where the oil pressure switch is -- there is pressure here but no flow, so...
• Re: .9 bar oil pressure sender replacement
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:34:01 -0800
  ...http://www.glowshiftdirect.com/vehicle-specific-oil-filter-sender-adapter.aspx Is replacing the grey hi pressure switch a better option than the filter...
• Re: R12 or R134?
  Historical mailing list - Keith A. Hughes
  Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:44:04 -0700
  ...pressures (especially at high ambient temps), and is not miscible with mineral oil (used in R-12 systems). At a minimum, when you switch...
• Re: 82 Diesel oil pressure switch and thermal sensors
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dearing
  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:15:39 EDT
  hey guys I am doing an inline conversion on an85 vannie. have the diesel stuff for this including the bellhousing.. I have a flat...
• Re: .9 bar oil pressure sender replacement oil cooler upgrade.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:54:46 -0500
  ...http://www.glowshiftdirect.com/vehicle-specific-oil-filter-sender-adapter.aspx Is replacing the grey hi pressure switch a better option than the filter...
• Re: 85 Westy stumbling?
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:37:52 -0400
  ...Pulled and swapped the motor with one that needed a rebuild had low oil pressure. Pulled the motor again and installed the rebuild with...
• Re: Update: Is my Compressor Broken?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:05:13 -0500
  ...If the pressure is low enough, the safety switch disables the > >> compressor to prevent it from running without the proper oil > >> circulation. Do you...
• cold wx starts
  Historical mailing list - Martin's
  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:53:15 -0500
  ...Studies with aircraft engines durning WW2 show that most bearing wear is done at start and turning it over until oil pressure develops is...
• Re: AC Service Prior to Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Thu, 12 May 2005 15:21:15 -0400
  ...has no low pressure cut off switch.When the refrigerant has mostly leaked out of a system with a switch , the compressor wont turn...
• Re: Ideal oil filter by-pass pressure/oil filters
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:19:30 -0400
  ...Ideal oil filter by-pass pressure/oil filters I'm trying to educate myself a little more about oil pressure, especially as it applies...
• Re: weird para-normal
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Tue, 25 May 2004 09:26:30 -0700
  ...can you have 2 oil > pressre switchs > go bad at once? anyway seems i have a high and low switch, thanks Ben your > website...
• Re: oil pressure and oil pump priming
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Wed, 9 May 2007 23:54:45 -0400
  ...Make sure the oil and can is clean. On the later engines, remove the oil pressure switch near the pump and pump oil in...
• Oil Checking My '86 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Dustan
  Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:58:01 -0700
  ...First, the oil pressure light in the center pod (between the speedo and the tach) blinks when the other lights are steady when the...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:04:18 -0400
  ...no further oil pressure events after remove, clean and > reassemble oil piston spring assembly, and a change of oil. > > I ended up changing the...
• Re: Flickering Oil Light, for EVERYONE TO KNOW.
  Historical mailing list - Wil Barker
  Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:20:01 -0400
  ...My mechanic told me it was low oil pressure, due to my engines age and wear (150K mi). He recomended using 20W50 oil (thicker...
• Re: engine running cooler, or wishful thinking?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 3 May 2004 07:50:20 -0500
  ...On most oil filters, the internal relief valve spring pressure is not sufficient to hold the oil in the oil galleries of the engine...
• Re: Oil light problem
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:31:49 -0800
  ...see the oil pressure switch under there .. > and that is where you'll attach your flex line ..where the OP switch unscrews from. > > I...
• Re: R-134a and lube amounts... PLEASE HELP!
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:42:11 -0500
  I'd try the 80% first, but let the high side pressure be the determining factor. Check your Bentley; there is a switch that...
• Re: Where can this wire be found?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 26 May 2011 14:42:59 -0700
  ...The oil pressure lamp on the dash does not come on because the op switch does not close with no oil pressure. Short that...
• Re: Synthetic Oil for a 2.1?
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:33:42 -0400
  ...Back in the day, I tried pushing 20w50 dino oil (Castrol) past 4,000 miles and began experiencing low oil pressure at 2,000RPM...
• Re: coolant leak story
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:40:22 -0800
  ...are needed not to cut it. > > > The oil pressure buzzer is the higher oil pressure switch which is looked at > when engine speed is...
• Re: DOn't use SM rated oils Re: Flickering Oil Light 84 auto
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:32:16 -0700
  ...Obviously, when the water pump was dying the engine over heated, which caused oil pressure to drop. I switched back to 10w-40 after...
• Re: permanent fuel pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 6 Mar 2006 01:45:06 -0600
  ...The only other addition would >be a switch to toggle between the fuel pressure and oil pressure senders. >For those of us who already...
• Re: Oil Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Wade Shen
  Thu, 23 May 2002 10:34:54 -0400
  ...Oil Pressure I just purchased a 91 Carat. On my drive home (bought it in Connecticut drove it home to VA) as I was...
• The DoKa is back, with a buzz !
  Historical mailing list - Mick's freeserve
  Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:17:51 -0000
  ...the oil pressure sender switches. But then the heads have been rebuilt, so no more smoke, replacement barrels and pistons,new oil pump, new...
• Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:09:31 -0500
  ...a tencentlife oil cooler . . . > > > > ---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >> ...I might as well look into rigging an oil pressure gauge. Anyone...
• Baldwin Filters for 1.6D/TD engines
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:39:26 -0800
  ...This means that with the V2-F chances are good that much of the oil will be bypassed. The bypass pressure of the correct...
• Re: How to disable oil warning buzzer?
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Thu, 13 May 2004 20:00:15 +0000
  ...near the motor undone >FORCES the high rpm oil switch to trigger the low oil pressure alarm. >This was a smart design but confusing...
• A/C Advice Needed -- Kind of Long
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:06:42 -0700
  ...IF the freon low pressure switch is made (i.e. sufficient charge in the system to prevent compressor damage) the compressor clutch engages. c...
• RE: oil light/buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Tim Smith
  Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:50:40 -0700
  ...on 20W50 oil in summertime. Under 2000RPM the oil cct. kicks in at near 0.3 bar, about 5PSI, pretty damn low pressure for...
• Re: Oil Pressure Light
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:27:55 -0400
  ...http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/oil_pressure_sender.htm I did this page carefully and with plenty of picture just because I couldn't...
• Re: Vanagon Ownership Misadventures
  Historical mailing list - Dake Collins
  Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:50:21 -0400
  ...I told him what happened and he > immediately reached dowm and felt for the oil pressure switch wire, found > it disconnected from the switch...
• Re: What's wrong with my 1.9 WBX engine?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 31 May 2010 19:15:27 -0700
  ...the oil pressure switch where you'd measure oil pressure is under that cover, between push rod tubes. Those lower tins can be hard...
• Guages
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 9 May 1996 10:27:29 -0500
  ...I mounted the oil pressure sender nest to the coolent reservoir and ran a plastic tube down to the oil switch between the #2...
• Re: oil pressure -- next round
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Pfrommer
  Thu, 17 May 2007 22:49:22 -0700
  ...it shows no oil pressure > hot at idle and makes the light come on if you use the switch they > provide > > a couple of...
• Re: 2.1 L Oil filler tube needed
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:31:46 -0700
  ...Going to have |>> at |>> least the old OP Switch, and a pressure sender, ..a golf ball size gizmo |>> to |>> talk to an electric oil...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 6 May 2007 12:00:39 -0700
  ...Great! We brought it back > into > >>>> the car, fired it up and it ran right away!! > >>>> Now first we experienced low oil pressure if...
• Re: engine issues
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:49:45 -0800
  ...due to not being installed correctly ( and I have found oil pressure switches screwed into VW van engines only finger tight, at least once...
• Re: Cold starting oil report Mobil 1 15w-50
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:49:03 -0800
  ...With the oil cooler 165F or > so is all the oil will go up to. Oil pressure in this state is about 25 psi...
• Re: Oil, what do I use?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer 19618-5th Ave so Seattle WA 98148
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 03:24:05 EDT
  ...I am switching to synthetic oil and the addition of a 1 micron filter by Amsoil. Before I let go of the dual-pressure...
• Oil pressure switch and unidentified black tube
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:37:00 -0800
  ...The oil pressure switch on the driver's side (between the pushrod tubes) has a wire/spade connector to it, but the wire is...
• Re: Flickering Oil Light at Idle
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:38:50 -0400
  I think oil temperature is even more helpful than pressure. It is the oil getting too hot that really causes the low pressure problems...
• Re: 20W50 did the trick (10W40 in the winter.)
  Historical mailing list - ROBERT DONALDS
  Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:11:43 -0400
  The 2.1 WBX engine has a problem with oil pressure at warn idle and I have writen about it on my web page...
• Re: A/C R-12 to R-134A
  Historical mailing list - Randy Herd
  Wed, 2 May 2001 08:32:32 -0600
  ...higher pressure than R12. Freeze-12 is in between. Have the AC tech pull a good vac, add a little ester oil (for the...
• Re: '86 Valve job question - details
  Historical mailing list - Balea, Michael
  Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:32:08 -0700
  ...I am currently switching to part synthetic.... 20W50, i do not have oil leak yet (knock on wood) because i replaced the oil seals...
• Re: 2.0 Swap. Oil pump prime puzzler.
  Historical mailing list - Otmar Ebenhoech
  Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:30:30 -0800
  ...The engine is mounted on the stock > > diesel mounts. > > > > After it sits for a week, the oil pressure will not come up for more...
• Fwd: 82 Diesel oil pressure switch and thermal sensors
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:50:06 -0500
  ...Does anyone actually know which spec oil pressure switch is correct for the 82 diesel? ETKA has 028919081D as .25 bar, blue and 021919081B...
• Re: Whining AC compressor
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 5 Aug 2016 00:00:56 -0500
  ...The excess oil in the system will cause over > pressurization in a manner that the high pressure switch will not react > fast enough and...
• Re: oil pressure warning system anomaly?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 3 Dec 2010 06:50:03 -0500
  ...with the low-pressure sender jumpered (fault condition if engine running) the light nonetheless goes out when engine is started? I'm guessing you...
• Re: Mystery oil leak on 2.1 please help with ideas
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 31 May 2004 13:01:41 -0700
  Oil pressure switch? 2.1 engines have a second one, near that area. Mark Doug in Calif wrote: > > Well, my brand newly rebuilt 89...
• Re: new bearings but no change in oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:57:24 -0500
  ...Either I will have to buy a new oil pump > or > switch to straight SAE 40 oil. I'll try the oil tomorrow, but...
• Re: oil pressure -- next round
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Pfrommer
  Sat, 2 Jun 2007 14:39:34 -0700
  ...it shows no oil >> pressure >> hot at idle and makes the light come on if you use the switch they >> provide >> >> a couple of...
• Re: 84 Vanagon A/C
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:42:03 -0500
  ...I use the high switch to energize the fan stage 3 relay. This rarely turns on but if the pressure gets up there while...
• Tiico--After market water temp gauge/oil temp gauge question.......
  Historical mailing list - Phil S.
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:32:00 -0700
  i recently installed the coolest-(literally)opperating thermo switch/thermostat into my Tiico I4. I might have created another problem: running oil temperatures. Someone...
• Re: Oil Pressure Light went On...Abort Trip?
  Historical mailing list - MilosKitchen
  Fri, 20 May 2005 22:03:29 -0400
  ...All seems fine, so we put in new oil pressure switch to be safe. Been all this time and no problems. Questions: How do...
• Re: Oil Pressure Buzzer? After Tach Wiring.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Knight
  Mon, 16 May 2005 16:29:52 -0500
  ...If the .3 >sensor closes contact, the oil light comes on. The newer system runs >everything thru a small L-shaped circuit board inside...
• Oil light problem... can you help?
  Historical mailing list - K. Taylor
  Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:59:49 -0700
  ...the oil pressure was about 8, which was seriously low. He felt that the oil pump was good. He replaced the oil switch and...
• Re: HEAT now oil light not lighting and others as well.
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:26:45 -0700
  ...be switched back in winter, handy source of heat then. After fooling around with the engine on my trip the oil pressure light quit...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:57:45 -0400
  ...Took the tin off the left side of the engine and found the LP switch insulation is damaged. Cleaned-off the gunk and taped...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:43:27 -0500
  ...no further oil pressure events after remove, clean and >> reassemble oil piston spring assembly, and a change of oil. >> >> I ended up changing the...