Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: oil pressure buzzer
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:11:54 -0400

Many VW and Audi engines use the 1.8 bar or the white sensor. The WBX
can not. The .9 or the grey sensor is the correct one.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of jbange
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:07 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: oil pressure buzzer

>They put in a 056-919-081-E, which I think is the 1.8 BAR sensor, but I
>think I read that it should be the .9 BAR sensor. So now I'm confused.
Which
>sensor, located behind the pulley, should I have in an 88 GL 2.1
engine?

Indeed, the -E sensor is the wrong one. The .9bar is 068-919-081-A,
according to ETKA6. If they can't follow numbers, tell 'em it needs the
GREY one, not the WHITE one!

>PS: If it should have been a .9 BAR sensor, where in the engine is a
1.8 BAR
>sensor used? I think the one between the cylinders is a .3, so what do
you do
>with a 1.8?

The ETKA shows it as an alternate for the wasserboxer in the same
position
as the .9bar, for some reason, and offers no explaination. The same page
shows the 1.4bar sensor for the diesel going where it goes for that
engine,
so it's obviously not a mis-labelled diesel sensor. Perhaps some T3's
somewhere use some sort of higher pressure system? Doesn't make much
sense
to me.

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
9 months owned - $11144 "invested"