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Subject:Re: Oil Pressure Relief Valve Divot???? 85 GL 1.9
From:kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Date:Sat, 16 Jul 2016 21:00:33 +0000

That is normally there.  The new ones have it.

Ken

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016, 4:37 PM Dave Bohannan <fjazzbass@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just what the title says…
>
> I’ve been narrowing an oil pressure flicker light and decided that while I
> changed my oil out that I’d take a look at the pressure relief valve,
> spring, etc...
>
> To my surprise (and dismay) there’s a skid mark shaped divot taken out of
> the top center of the valve off center a tad…I had this out a decade ago
> and don’t remember this, but…who knows maybe it was already there??!
> Why?!?! What on earth could be wearing right in the center and literally
> like a grinder wheel took a piece of it out?!?!
>
> I’m slapping it back together again as I wait for my dual gauge set up…
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave
> 85 GL 1.9er
>