Re: Oil Light

["Allyn" <amalventano1@home.com>]

jason,
you are starving your motor of oil in hard turns! read the post from Craig
Williams. my first scirocco did that and it resulted in loss of compression
on a 1500 mile road trip. oil level was perfect. it was due to a dented in
oil pan, which in turn bent the pickup upward slightly. if it only does it
in hard turns, its probably not an electrical problem. the dynamic oil
pressure curcuit has a debouncing/filtering input, that means if the light
comes on and buzzes, you've already been below minimum allowed pressure for
2 seconds. Not only that, the pressure setting is set for minimum oil
pressure at 2000 rpm, you're probably higher than that in your turns.
slightly overfill your oil and see if it still does it. it doesnt take much
to starve the oil suction, especially if its bent. Heck, 'full' to 'add' is
only like 1/2" on the dipstick.
Al

Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6) running - for now
87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch,
driveshafts, wheels :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason VW" <scirocco_16v@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Oil Light


> I know this is never a good sign, but my oil light pops on every once in a
> while.  now i know that "Once in a While" is never fixable, but it seems
to
> come on under hard turning.  any one else have this kind of problem? oil
> level is good, the pump could be going (223K miles) or it just could be a
> bad relay.  nothing is hard to fix, but i just wanted to see if this
happens
> to anyone else.
>
> thanks
> jason
>
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