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Subject:Re: Need help
From:John Rodgers
Date:Mon, 9 May 2005 13:58:40 -0500

I run Mobil One 15W50wt synthetic.. Great Stuff!!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Jere Hawn wrote:

>I was using Castrol 20/50 at the time this occurred
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>Jere
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>jimt
>Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:01 AM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Need help
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>On 5/9/05 3:53 AM, "Robert Cardo" <rrecardo@WEBTV.NET> wrote:
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>><<Then why did the problem go away when I changed the oil filter to a
>>Mahle? And its has been running fine for the last 1K mile>>
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>>And ths shall remain a mystery.
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>>RC
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>In testing I found that the bypass valve in the fram was a rather strong
>one.  This could cause a low enough pressure at the lower pressure sense
>switch to cause a buzzer alarm with thick oil.
>Jimt
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