New Engine... NO Oil Pressure!!!!

[Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com (Joe Doty)]

Personally, I'd go to a hardware store and pick up a mechanical
air/water/oil gauge and slam it right on the filter housing before I did
any more work on the car.

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Harder [mailto:vwtype53@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:24 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: New Engine... NO Oil Pressure!!!!
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> I have just installed my freshly rebuilt 2.0 16v into my '80 rocco
with
> so much excitement to hear it finally run for the first time!  But
wait,
> what's this!?  My oil pressure gauge is reading 0.5 bar!!!???
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> I have checked all clearances before engine assembly, installed a NEW
oil
> pump, and tried a few different oil pressure senders and gauges.  But
when
> the engine is started, my gauge reads near 0 at idle and only up to
about
> 0.5 bar at 2000rpm.  The engine has only been run for appx. 3-5
minutes so
> far through my troubleshooting...
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> Tonight I installed the new oil pump with no improved results... after
> dropping the pan twice after 15 second engine starts, I inspected the
> crank and piston bores to see that they were very well covered in oil.
> After each test-start I cleaned the oil cap, only to find it covered
in
> oil every time.
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> I have tried installing a oil pressure sender on the top of the oil
filter
> flange AND on the back side of the cylinderhead... but I basically get
a
> reading of 0 bar.
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> The only thing I have left to try is to get a mechanical oil pressure
> gauge
> to see the real story... but I am afraid that I really DO have a low-
> pressure
> issue.  What else could be wrong!?
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> Any experience here would be soooo appreciated...
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> TIA!