GEX?!?!?!  It's the engine going bad.
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Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Zeno" <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:43 AM
Subject: BAD OIL Again!

> DAM!   Last summer I was changing oil in my 1986 Syncro,
> and put in Mobil regular oil.  To make a long store short,
> I had a lot of trouble with the 20-50 weight oil being to
> thin when hot.  It would set off the oil light and buzzer.
>     Once again, 1 1/2 years later I'm having the same problem.
> Start it up cold, no problem, 15 minutes later, oil pressure
> problems.  Is my the engines going bad?  Or maybe the
> engine oil is changing and will not run in the vanagon
> engines anymore?  I can't imagine my GEX rebuild was
> going bad 1 1/2 tears ago and now later it is finnally
> getting worst.  I'm changing the oil  and filter tonight
> prematurelly.      Comments?
>                                           Eric