RE: leaking oil cooler?

[Brian Honnold <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

Oh, thanks for the clarification

Brian Honnold
'78 Rocco Ragtop

On Monday, January 03, 2000 4:50 PM, Steven M. Toughill [SMTP:toughil@bellatlantic.net] wrote:
> 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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