← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum

Search messages and discussions

Search preserved mailing-list messages and current email and website contributions. Current posts are searchable before weekly archival. Recovery gaps remain possible. Words are matched together; try fewer terms if needed.

Page 6+: 60 results shown for Oil.

Source-balanced relevance: matches from both collections are interleaved, with source dates breaking ties. Restoration time is not the original posting date.

Re: Watching Oil Temp
Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:13:48 -0700
...That means the air in the oil > makes the oil less efficient than oil alone at cooling. That is why engine > manufactures insist on...
Re: Diesel to Gas conversion! Oil Pump Input Shaft Length?
Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:20:01 -0700
Try installing the diesel oil pump pickup tube on the gas oil pump. Mike Snow Joe Hunt wrote: > On all the conversion sites folks...
Re: Oil filter Coolers......just more snake oil?
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:01:18 -0400
Actually, The waterboxer can get the oil hotter than you think. Since it can run at over 4,000 rpm for long periods I...
oil pans on diesel vanagons
Historical mailing list - Stuart Hutton
Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:40:16 -0600 (MDT)
Dear vanagon members, The seats on the oil drain hole on my vanagon's oil pan have broken and I need to know if...
Tiico Oil Cooler / Aftermarket oil pressure gauges
Historical mailing list - Phil S.
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:49:47 -0700
The Tiico oil cooler has two 10mm inputs for adding an oil pressure gauge and an oil temp gauge. I have found electric oil...
Re: Oil Weight Reccomendation
Historical mailing list - John Brush
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:29:55 -0600
>> >> Looking for oil weight / brand recommendations for a 1/9L 1985 Westy in >> Phoenix, AZ. > I have always used 20-50W in my air...
Re: Oil pressure switch question (air cooled)
Historical mailing list - neil N
Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:01:40 -0700
...Oil pressure switch question (air cooled) > > >> Hi all. >> >> I may have the incorrect Jetta oil pressure switch (1.8 or .9 bar >> "high" pressure...
Re: oil pressure relief valve washer
Historical mailing list - John
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:33:32 -0400
...Well, the oil pressure light has never > come on again after I switched to 20W-50 oil and a VW dealer oil filter > (which...
Re: YIKE! Lost 3 qts oil in 30 sec, messy eng. compartment...
Historical mailing list - Southard Family
Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:24:23 -0400
...my guess is oil was coming from > the oil filter area. ... Removing the > oil filter did not reveal any obvious splits in filter. Filter...
Re: how engine oil degrades
Historical mailing list
Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:51:21 -0500
...7bit I had my oil light blink and buzz intermittently , indicating the highpress oil sensor went off in my 91 Carat last week ....(I...
Re: oil light
Historical mailing list - David McNeely
Mon, 2 Oct 2017 13:56:13 -0700
Mine is ten cent life's external oil cooler. I am very happy eith it. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:18 AM...
Re: oil temp or oil pressure
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:49:40 -0500
...I have heard arguments that it is more important to know the oil temperature than the oil pressure, but wasn't convinced. My former...
Re: Can this do that?
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Sun, 22 May 2011 20:00:30 -0500
My 2.1 with the tencentlife oil cooler takes one quart more than it did before to fill it to 3/4 above the...
Re: 89 vanagon with oil light on????
Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:17:18 -0700
most of the time the oil light coming on is due to using the wrong filter and/or viscosity of oil.... (should be using...
Re: Hard to read oil level?
Historical mailing list
Wed, 17 Aug 1994 15:33:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > I, too, have noticed that it is VERY difficult to read > the oil-stick exactly! All hints appreciated.... Martha Martha... I know at least...
Oil Filler Tube vs Oil Bottle Neck
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Fri, 13 May 2005 23:23:15 -0500
Has anyone noticed the change in the size of the neck on oil bottles. Over a period of seversl months I realized that the...
Re: Another Synthetic Oil Question
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:36:30 -0500
...In effect my oil was self changing. After many years of taking a position on oil types, oil brands and weights, I eventually ran...
BAD OIL Again!
Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:43:33 -0500
DAM! Last summer I was changing oil in my 1986 Syncro, and put in Mobil regular oil. To make a long store short, I...
Oil pressure switch question (air cooled)
Historical mailing list - neil N
Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:44:33 -0700
...I may have the incorrect Jetta oil pressure switch (1.8 or .9 bar "high" pressure switch) connected to my air cooled Vanagon oil...
Re: Oil filter flange Coolant/Oil heat exchanger...works.
Historical mailing list - neil n
Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:34:43 -0700
...Glad my cooler was in place! (I really should install oil gauges too) Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages...
Re: oil level question
Historical mailing list - Aaron Sedgmen
Fri, 14 Jul 95 10:15:57 EST
Hi all, Jared's question on oil level and subsequent responses has made me wonder about my experience with oil levels in my '74...
Cooling your Oil.
Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:44 -0700
The best way to cool your oil is to buy an oil cooler kit. It consist of: 1 Sandwich Plate for type IV engine...
Re: Oil Pressure observation.
Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:29:26 -0400
Castrol Syntec is dino oil with a marketing blurb. It's not synthetic oil as we came to know it. On Jul 31, 2011...
heaviest oil to use??
Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:10:00 -0400
Hi all i need to change the oil in my 85 westi. ive run Marvel oil for while to loosen up everything (ie lifters...
Re: Oil light comes up, 1.9 engine
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:08:48 -0800
It could be the oil switch misbehaving, but chances are if it works normally for other modes, it's working right. And the if...
Re: oil pump failure? please help...
Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
Tue, 21 May 2019 16:05:37 +0000
...As for the pump priming, the oil pump does a lousy job pumping air. Worse, it needs the oil film between the gear teeth...
Oil cooling..
Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:15:18 -0800
There are 'tempostats' available to control your oil flow to an aux. oil cooler. Thermo-switches. a good http://www.batinc.net/main.htm...
Fw: Re: oil stick
Historical mailing list - Roy O.
Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:03:16 -0600
An addendum to the oil checking procedure: When you remove the dip stick, make sure it is pointing downwards or at most, parallel with...
oil filter and oil pressure on cold start
Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:02:17 -0500
...Regards, -Karl > I've noticed that my oil pressure seems to come up much more slowly > since my last oil change. On a cold...
Re: Oil Weight Reccomendation
Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:42:10 -0500
Here's a very basic explanation of multi weight oil from edmunds.com: "...20-weight oil would remain 20-weight oil at all temperatures...
mysterous oil leak
Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:42:59 -0700
Can someone give me some hints where my oil is going! I loose about 1/2 quart every 350ish miles. When I did my...
Oil for infrequently driven vehicles
Historical mailing list - T. Thompson
Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:11:35 -0400
The discussion on oil bypass filters reminded me of an article in Car and Driver last month. It was an interview with a oil...
Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:03:18 -0400
...Synthetic oils are much better at meeting both requirements than conventional oils. Miken
Re: Oil in the coolant
Historical mailing list - Ram�n Celaya
Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:29:12 -0800
on 10/19/01 6:12 PM, Joel Walker at jwalker17@earthlink.net wrote: > How sound this ? Oil in the coolant, Deep purple hit...
Oil recommendation!
Historical mailing list - Joseph Tu
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:05:04 -0800
Hello list, Just wanted to say a few words about the oil I used in my last oil change. I usually run Valvoline VR1...
Re: Draining/refilling oil of the Vanagons transaxle?
Historical mailing list - Mike S
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:49:00 -0400
At 05:44 PM 8/26/2007, THOMAS IN GEORGIA wrote... >Gravity feed 90 weight oil? You're kidding right? Works fine, better if...
Another Synthetic Oil Question
Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:57:36 -0700
I see everyone referring to longer change intervals on the oil, but how about change interval on the filter? I recall when the synth...
Re: Oil: 10w30? 20w50?
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:28:41 -0500
Wesley, the main reason for keeping the heavier oil throughout the year is that the engine lives at temperature most of it active life...
Re: How the heck to prime oil pump? (Vanagon D)
Historical mailing list - Rachel Cogent
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:52:32 -0700
...Low oil pressure at idle, okay, but oil pressure > nonetheless--certainly not a blockage. > > I'm guessing I'm just sucking air somehow at...
Frequency of Oil Changes
Historical mailing list - Lee F. Schelin
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:40:36 -0700
...In the 60's I worked for Standard Oil of California and when I first started working there in 1961 Standard recommended changing oil...
Re: Synthetic oil for Vanagon?
Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:27:53 -0700
Full synthetic oil works great in the wasserboxer. I use Mobile 1 Extended Performance 15W50 here in northeast Florida, and for that matter when...
Oil Level
Historical mailing list
Fri, 30 Sep 94 20:50:06 EDT
If you guys will remember my post about excess oil level about four months ago I tested oil level vs. engine oil temp extensively...
oil pressure problem
Historical mailing list - Michael Y. Feng
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:30:08 -0400
Hi, I was driving my 87 Vanagon out of town, and the oil pressure light and buzzer came on after driving up a long...
Re: Oil Temperature??
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:39:09 -0500
I have a tencentlife external oil cooler on a 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile with original 2.1, manual transmission, 179K miles. Before the...
Re: Oil pump leak fix and switch to synthetic oil
Historical mailing list - developtrust
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:17:50 -0800
I will strain my oil tomorrow. And I will certainly remember to strain the synthetic oil at the next change. I just plain forgot...
Re: Oil change interval
Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
Wed, 15 May 2024 22:10:56 +0000
...Conventional oil formulations have not radically changed and even with a synthetic oil you would not want all that dirty oil circulating through your...
oil leak above the oil filter.
Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:35:46 EDT
Hi All, I've developed an oil leak above the oil filter. It doesn't appear to be either of the two hoses It...
Re: Oil leaking out
Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 07:13:54 -0500
...An oil change on you or van consists of oil filter oil cleaning sump screen new paper gaskets for that screen 2 crush washers...
Re: Oil leak since rebuilt 2.1l installed
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:27:29 -0700
...I have an oil pressure gauge and > oil temp gauge along with an external oil cooler so I should get warned > quickly of any...
Re: Oil for infrequently driven vehicles
Historical mailing list - Dominique Cormann
Sat, 25 Dec 1999 22:53:06 -0500
Yes for gas engines look for a SJ on the diesel oil. So I far I have yet to see one that doesn't...
Re: 89 Wolfs/Newbie ?? Oil pressure prob
Historical mailing list - Johan Nyberg
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:40:13 +0100
...Bad oil filter, try a different brand - not Fram. >2. Bad oil pressure switch(es) - try replacing. >3. Actual low oil pressure - replace engine...
Re: Diesel Oil?
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:01:06 -0500
"DINO oil" is a common term for that black goo called oil we pump out of the ground. No dinosaurs were hurt, slandered or...
Re: update head repair 84 wasserboxer
Historical mailing list - Rob Scott
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:03:01 -0700
...This oil in the >carb happened on a steep uphill grade.. could the excess oil have been >routed into the oil breather pipe and...
Re: Ethnicity of Oil Pressure Switch
Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:41:12 -0400
There's a common misconception that "more/higher" oil flow/pressure is good, and that very low oil pressure is a precursor to a...
Re: Motor Oil (Synthetic)
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:27:20 -0500
Well, for what it's worth, when consumer reports, using modern nonsynthetic oils, ran vehicles under severe conditions in New York City, and extended...
Re: Mocal sandwich plate plus oil cooler equals overcooling
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:43:38 -0800
uh..........what's 'so wrong' with 220 F oil temps ? Considering that oil temp is going to get up to coolant temp after a...
Re: to the td conversion people
Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:10:22 EDT
...This withdrew oil from the intermediate sump and sent the oil through an external oil cooler, then back into the engine sump reservoir. In...
Re: '86 up vanagon owners....you still need an oil gauge!
Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:26:17 -0500
<<<snip>>>> Normal oil consumption (1 qt./1500 miles. I don't consider this normal oil consumption... at 90k miles on engine mine consumes zero...
is my oil pressure indicator faulty?
Historical mailing list - Scotia Westy
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:37:58 -0300
My oil pressure indicator / buzzer went off today and once last week. The oil level is good - checked today. Also checked to make sure...
Re: Diesel Oil?
Historical mailing list - James Felder
Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:03:18 -0500
So, why call it Dino oil since it didn't come from dinosaurs? Jim On Nov 2, 2012, at 8:01 PM, "Tom Hargrave...