Re: oil pressure

[vagabond@netcom.ca]

Shawn C Meze wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998 19:16:24 EST HOT GTX <HOTGTX@aol.com> writes:
> >hello all
> >
> >i have a problem with my oil pressure idiot light.  It comes on with the
> >buzzer around 1800 rpm with the engine and oil fully heated up. I have
> an oil
> >pressure guage that santa got me this year.  It said fine about 15 psi.
> THe
> >real kicker is i don't have the wire to the pressure sender from the
> factory
> >hooked up.  it is taped on the heater hose.  Any ideas?  is there
> another
> >sending unit i don't know about?
> >
> >thankx
> >dave
> >85 Scirocco    8V
> 
> 15 PSI at 1800 rpms?!?!?! Yikes! Ive got like 40 PSI ....... and at idle
> its at 15-20. Well, one of 2 things will cause this problem. Bad oil
> pump, or the oil is simply too thin. Since you say it happens when the
> oil is warm, then id suspect the oil is the problem. Try going up a
> thickness is viscosity and see what it does.
> HTH!

	That is rather low, as for the buzzing my friend had exactly the same
problem on his '83 and it turned out to be a bad connection in the back
of the instrument cluster, it's worth checking.  Also on the back of the
speedo is the circuit for buzzer, that can also be at fault.

vagabond
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