No oil pressure - now what?

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Daun, refresh me, what colour is this car? And when did you first get it? ;)
Cathy 

PS, that just sucks...


> --- T Berk <bayareaberk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >  -- Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >  <snip>
> > >  Monday I actually drove to work (it was chilly
> > >  dammit) and just a scant 10 seconds or so
> > >  after leaving the driveway, the oil light
> > >  & buzzer came on.  Drove for another 3-4
> > >  seconds 'til I crested the hill, and shut
> > >  er down and coasted into the parking lot.
> > >  What was left of the engine oil was dripping
> > >  from the filter.
>
> >  I kind of like the crack the sensor fitting and burp
> >  the system idea although I have no direct experience
> >  with that exactly to back it up.
> >
> >  When the motor has sat for awhile, what is the
> >  dipstick reading right now?
>
> 'Tis basically full.
>
> I cracked the sensor loose and cranked the car.  It would
> *barely* run, like the timing was off.  Lined everything up
> on TDC, and found that the intermediate shaft had slipped a
> tooth from last week.  So for the moment, moved the
> distributor a little to get it to run.  Started it up for
> probably 10 seconds or so, and not a drop out of the
> pressure sender hole.
>
> This is sounding disgustingly like I'm going to be dropping
> the pan in the near future.  Anyone have any thoughts at
> what is going on here???
>
> Ungrateful wretch, I just spent the better part of a month
> replacing a bunch of parts under the hood, now I'm going to
> do MORE?  *grumble*
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
> Ehrlich's Law.
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