Re: Update on BAR guage and oil pressure

["Marc Peterson" <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>]

Not sure how the VW oil filter housings are designed, but a faulty bypass
valve in the oil filter housing "could" cause low oil pressure.

HTH,
Marc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Lowe" <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>
To: "scirocco-L" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:28 PM
Subject: Update on BAR guage and oil pressure


> Started up the Scirocco again today and let it warm up
> a little longer this time, let it run for about ten
> minutes. When first started the gauge read around 1.2
> bar at 980 RPM idle, but after the engine warms up it
> drops to a scary .5 bar, and the reading at 2000 RPM
> is only about 1.5 bar(not the 2.0 that the Bentley
> says it should be). So it looks like I'll be needing
> an oil pump, I guess?
>
> I checked the oil level and it's perfect, so other
> then the pump is there anything else that may cause
> low pressure? And when and if I do replace the pump
> should I go ahead and upgrade to a 2.0 pump?
>
> Later...
>
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> Garland, Texas
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