Re: 16V oil pressure sending units: what the &$^#(*$&?!?!?

["Potterman" <virtualworld@earthlink.net>]

Elias,  sorry if I confused you but you have to move both front wire & 
sender to the back spot.  Then put the new sender in the front spot & 
put the back wire on the new VDO sender.

HTH
Potterman


> 
> While transfering my VDO gauges from the 8V to the 16V, I decided to
> actually hook up the oil pressure gauge (10psi) instead of just having it
> sit there in the console. Well, it is simple for 8Vs: take out the sending
> unit from the driver side of the engine, screw in the dual sending unit,
> run a wire to the interior, done. The 16Vs have both the low and high
> pressure sending units mounted on top of the oil cooler. Mike Potter told
> me that he vaguely remembered someone doing this, and the trick was:
> replace the front unit with teh dual unit; move the wire from the front
> unit to the rear unit; move the wire from teh rear unit to the proper lead
> of the dual unit, and connect the remaining lead of the dual unit to the
> wire running to the gauge. I tried just that. Did not work. In fact, the
> *only* combination (out of the possible four) that does not result in the
> oil buzzing or the oil light flashing is: rear unit and wire stay as they
> are; front wire goes to where the wire for the gauge should go. Needless
> to say, that configuratoin doesn't allow the gauge to work, gives it
> almost 0 V, which pegs the needle to as far as it can go. 
> 
> Apparently there is a way to make this work, since Mark told me his friend
> did make it work, it is just that it is not obvious what to do. I suspect
> it has to do with teh two stock sensors being for low and high pressure.
> Maybe I should have removed the rear sensor instead of the front one? 
> 
> Has anybody in here done this to a 16V? 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Elias
> 
> 
> --
> Email problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org  To unsubscibe send
> "unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to majordomo@scirocco.org
> 
> 


Mike Potter
a.k.a. Potterman
virtualworld@earthlink.net
http://www.parts4vws.com
(714)663-2434

--
Email problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org  To unsubscibe send
"unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to majordomo@scirocco.org