It's measured in the case.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Where are you measuring the oil pressure? In the case or at a bypass
> plate? If bypass plate It's the filter.
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Mark McCulley
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 9:06 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: high oil pressure
>
> An odd thing happened this past weekend while driving my stock 2.1 on a
> short road trip. I'd been cruising on the highway for about an hour,
> travelling 70-75mph, glanced at my oil pressure gauge and was surprised to
> see it reading 60psi. Normally it would be just below 30. I checked the oil
> temp gauge, it was normal, about 200F. Checked the tach, no, I wasn't in
> 3rd gear. I kept an eye on it, the pressure reading didn't change until I
> got off the freeway, then it dropped with the rpms. The next bit of
> travelling was on a secondary road so didn't get back up to freeway speeds,
> but oil pressure seemed normal for the rest of the way to our destination.
> And on the return trip a couple of days later, driving the same freeway at
> 70-75mph, oil pressure gauge stayed just below the 30psi that I'm
> accustomed to seeing.
>
> Any ideas what could have happened here?
>
> -Mark
> '87 syncro
>
>