Re: leaking oil cooler?

["Steven M. Toughill" <toughil@bellatlantic.net>]

on a 16 V they are both PSI senders the temp sender is on the side of the
head below the Dist.

Steven Toughill
ASE Cert. VW Technician
Volkstech


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Honnold <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>
To: roc list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:31 PM
Subject: RE: leaking oil cooler?


>One sensor is the Temp sender and one is the high pressure sender
>
>It is most likely the high pressure one.....Shannon had one fail on him
>once and I had one last summer spring a leak and blow oil all over....There
>is only a thin copper washer on the bottom of the sender that you need to
>replace when you put the new one on.
>
>There are numbers on the bottom of the sender, make sure you get the right
>one or you will get a low pressure buzz and warning light all the time
>
>Brian Honnold
>'78 Rocco Ragtop
>
>On Wednesday, March 17, 1999 8:13 AM, the-mad-bastard@home.com
>[SMTP:the-mad-bastard@home.com] wrote:
>> hey everybody. for the longest time, my 16V has had quite a substantial
>> amount of oil loss.  i attributed it to a leaking crankshaft seal and
>> leaky oil pan gasket.  well, yesterday i started to look really closely
>> at the path the oil has been following.  it looks as tho it's coming
>> from one of the sensors on the oil cooler.
>>
>> there are two terminals that come from the top of the cooler.  one is
>> the high pressure switch, and the other one is the oil temp sender.  i'm
>> not sure which one it is, but i do know that it is the sensor closest to
>> the front of the car (i think that it has the yellow wire)
>>
>> it seems to leak from somewhere around the sensor, travels down from
>> the oil cooler along to the oil pan.  from there it goes all around the
>> entire oil pan gasket, sway bar, and basically everything on the bottom
>> of the car.
>>
>> anyone else ever have this problem?  what exactly is the procedure to
>> fix it?  the sensor's nut looks to be 24mm, but i'm not sure if it's got
>> a washer or gasket underneath, and have no idea what i should torque the
>> nut down to.  thanks for all yer help...
>>
>> jason
>> the mad bastard
>>
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