intermitent oil light?

[scirocco21@hotmail.com (Dan Williams)]

My car had that problem, but it was only over 2000 rpm.  My problem was a 
wiring one after checking oil pressure against listed values.  A cheap 
autozone oil pressure gauge temporarily plugged in over the oil cooler 
helped with that.  After grounding the sensor responsible for that, I have 
no problem 2years and 20,000 miles later.

Not to be the pessimist, but I think heavily worn bearings can cause a drop 
in oil pressure too.  Perhaps using an oil pressure guage could help you 
narrow the problem?

OT:  has anybody had a problem with those black VW oil filters?  I put one 
on my 8v and the O-ring above the cooler blew in short order.

Thanks
Dan


>From: "Daniel Siegel" <dj6624@hotmail.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: intermitent oil light?
>Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:28:19 -0400
>
>
>I just got my car back from my parents place and the oil light keeps poping 
>on. my father said he was driving it for a while and it was doing it 
>sometimes he didn't think anything of it. So when i got it i changed the 
>oil and started fixing some other things on it but not the oil light is on 
>all the time. i don't really know what to do about it, cuz if it was the 
>oil pump and it has been bad all this time the engine would have blown up a 
>long time ago. so i am guessing its the sensor but i don't really know what 
>to do about it. any ideas?
>
>DJ
>1986 scirocco 8v
>
>
>
>
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