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Subject:Re: 2.1l high oil pressure
From:Craig Cowan
Date:Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:06:03 -0400

It's got to be a stuck pressure relief system right?
How does one fix that?

-craig

> On Apr 24, 2015, at 6:55 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> 
> From Michael Durkin on the FB Vanagon Owners group:
> 
>> Ok, so I definitely have a high oil pressure problem. Its
>> consistently running at 60 psi. It's always ran at 10-30 psi
>> depending on rpms. This has been confirmed with a manual gauge ran
>> from the oil pressure switch manifold. I pulled the oil pressure
>> regulator assembly and cleaned the hell out of it. Also changed the
>> oil and filter (again). I just had the van at the mechanic getting
>> new heads, gaskets, and a few other things done. When I picked it
>> up, there was no white smoke coming from the tailpipe anymore (there
>> was a cloud behind me before the heads). Now the white smoke is
>> back. Anybody have a clue what is going on with my van? 1987 GL auto 2.1 WBX.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> --
> David Beierl -- dbeierl@attglobal.net

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