On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Mel Miller wrote:

> The oil pressure sensor is on the head at the rear of the engine. The sensor
> has a flat mating surface just an eighth of an inch around the threads -
> 10mm fine. The sensor is leaking under pressure and spewing oil all over the
> rear of the engine compartment. When I went to my FLAPS and asked for the
> filters and sensor they kept bringing out a sensor with a conical mating
> surface - same threads and length but different mating surface.

Sounds suspiciously like a gasoline Vanagon sender or something.  Have you
tried asking for a sender for some other '86 diesel VW?  Maybe a Golf or
Rabbit?  I'm guessing they all used the same sender.  I seem to recall my
'82 Vanagon, which has a 1.6 NA diesel, using a sender with a flat mating
surface, but it's been a while since I had that apart.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si