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| posted on January 6th, 2006 at 09:09 PM |
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oil light dramas
Hi all,
A quick question,
oil light flickers at start up, then gose out ... then comes on & gose out again when i excellerate, the second i back off the excellerator, the light
flickes on again .... and there is plenty of oil in the motor ?
do i have a problem or is it just a 6volt gremlin ?
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| posted on January 6th, 2006 at 10:19 PM |
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Im not sure what the problem is, but I get this also usually when its waiting in traffic or when ive been driving for about an hour.
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 06:07 AM |
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sounds like tired motors.
loosing pressure
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 05:03 PM |
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Ok, tired motor, you say ... i can belive that, but i was hoping for a bit more detail on the problem than that.
It seems to be driving fine, and the light today is flickering much less ... might the problem be something other than a dying motor, or am i living
in denial ?
Also, if it is dying, will this mean a full stripd down & rebuild, or is it chuck it away time and start a fresh? . I would like to try & keep the
motor is the original engine.
:alien
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 05:14 PM |
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pull your sender out and clean it or replace it. Often when people put them in they use thread tap and some gets over the hole. Also oil often has
crap in it which blocks the hole and plays silly bugger.
If you get worried drain oil, fill up with kero or deiso and turn over a few times to clean it all out, don't let it start so disconect your coil.
Then empy it and put oil back in, you would be suprised how much crap gets in the gallies
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 06:12 PM |
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get/borrow copy of John Muir - how to keep your vw running.
there is a whole chapter for fixing this issue. In my case it was a faulty sensor.
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 06:44 PM |
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Thank you guys ... thats alot more helpful
cheers
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| posted on January 7th, 2006 at 10:24 PM |
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definatly play with the wiring first... if that doesnt fix it, hope its a worn oil pump
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| posted on January 12th, 2006 at 08:06 PM |
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Buggy Brad... big thank you.. did everything you suggested..
I replaced the oil pressure switch / sender... drained the oil / tried the Kero / filled her up with new clean oil .. also checked the wire, going
too the sender...
running like a dream ... no oil light dramas ... YOU ARE DA MAN!!! ... If you are in Sydney for the nationals ... i am buying you a beer :beer thumb
Aerodynamics are for people who cant build engines - Enzo Ferrari
You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody, you buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody - Frank Sinatra
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