Re: Update on BAR guage and oil pressure

["Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>]

probably not it, but what wt oil are you using? you got enough of it? i 
wouldn't assume that your oil pressure is low just because of this gauge. 
this was a new install, correct? so it's not like the gauge read 1 thing and 
then one day the pressure fell. try swapping in another gauge/sender if you 
have one, or verify the pressure some other way.
-michael


>Started up the Scirocco again today and let it warm up
>a little longer this time, let it run for about ten
>minutes. When first started the gauge read around 1.2
>bar at 980 RPM idle, but after the engine warms up it
>drops to a scary .5 bar, and the reading at 2000 RPM
>is only about 1.5 bar(not the 2.0 that the Bentley
>says it should be). So it looks like I'll be needing
>an oil pump, I guess?
>
>I checked the oil level and it's perfect, so other
>then the pump is there anything else that may cause
>low pressure? And when and if I do replace the pump
>should I go ahead and upgrade to a 2.0 pump?
>
>Later...
>
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>Jeff Lowe
>Garland, Texas
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