The GEX tag says it all. Pull the engine and get one from Bob Donalds.

John Rodgers
88 Gl Driver

Eric Zeno wrote:
> 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
>