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Subject:Re: Oil pressure light comes on after about 7 minutes.
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:24:34 -0500

At 07:48 PM 12/2/2010, Roland wrote:
>When I go downhill, at idle in neutral, the light/buzzer go out after about
>7-10 seconds.

The system doesn't operate below ~2000 rpm...

>The next step I am considering is to get some different oil.  I know I am
>being a bad vanagon owner, but I can't even recall what oil or weight I
>used, pretty sure it was 40W or close to that.  Probably Castrol or

Suggest drain oil into clean container, put in known oil -- if it
cures the problem then you can toss the other oil.  If not then you
have some oil to use after the trouble is fixed.  But my nickel is
the oil was lighter than you thought.

Yrs,
D