"Spray on hatch"  should be the search phrase, IMO.  Happened to me last
year and took me awhile also.  BTW-Don't need to reomove the water pump
pulley to do it, tho.  Glad you found it.   Note: I haven't heard my warning
buzzer once since I did this.  I hope it is working.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com>wrote:

> For the archives:
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> 1986 westy
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> Had a modest drip coming the engine from the area around the oil drain
> plug, made some feeble attempts to locate but never had any luck.  I did
> post to the list a few months ago and received many helpful replies, and
> many suggested the oil cooler o-ring was the culprit.  I cleaned things up a
> bit and watched and thought this may be the case, I tightened the fitting
> and ordered a new ring thinking I had licked the leak.  It still leaked.....
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> I was willing to let sleeping dogs lies but I realized that on long drives
> I got the splatters on my hatch, so this week I did a thorough bottom half
> degreasing and pressure wash and figured it out, the freaking oil pressure
> sender behind the water pump was leaking.  I had already purchased a
> replacement when I went through the oil warning rehab two years ago.
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> There are lots of posts on how to replace the sender, this is what worked
> for me;
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> 1)  Removed water pump pulley (13mm)
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> 2)  moved belts out way (loosened AC belt)
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> 3)  remove wire to sender w/ long nosed pliers, cleaned area w/ rag
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> 4)  put run of the mill 24mm deep socket (craftsman) on sender (figured out
> I had to coax some tin back w/ screwdriver)
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> 5)  inserted 1/2 to 3/8 adapter halfway into socket put a 13mm wrench on
> the exposed part of the adapter
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> 6)  sender came very easily with bushing attached of course used 22 mm
> wrench to get bushing off of sender
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> 7)  cleaned bushing mating areas and attached to new sender,
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> 8)  became very irritated when I realized I had every size copper washer
> but one I needed, went to FLAPS 1/2 mile away to get one
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> 9)  Put sender back in van, replaced belts, just realized I half to snug up
> h20 pump pulley bolts or my wife is going to be ticked off at me when she
> takes dog to vet tomorrow
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> 10) went for some local driving to get van up to temp, no sign of any
> drippage when looking under van
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> Can someone tell me why I didn't just do this earlier????
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