No oil pressure - now what?

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

I've also run across the situation that Mark describes. Overfilling the filter will cause no oil pressure. Not sure what's up with that.
One thing to try is to loosen one of the sensors on top of the oil filter housing. If you have a decent leak with the engine running then it's probably OK.
Dan

From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: No oil pressure - now what?


> On 12:09:13 am 04/12/06 "Mark F." <mk1mark@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/11/06, Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >  So, short of trying to hook up a gage to tell for sure,
>> >  what do I do now?  If I'm truly not getting pressure, why,
>> >  and what can I do about it?
>> >
>> >  Any suggestions appreciated, as I'm stumped for now.
>>
>>
>> I once had either a faulty OEM oil filter or a hydraulic lock
>> situation created on install.  After an oil change I had no oil
>> pressure, but after installing another filter everything was fine.  I
>> remember I had filled the new oil filter with fresh oil that time till
>> it was overflowing (above the ball, and even the area between the seal
>> and the center hole) - maybe I created a pressure somewhere in the
>> filter/mount when I spun the filter on which caused the problem.  I'm
>> not sure if it was a defective filter, or that, but since then I've
>> filled my oil filters to 3/4 full just in case...
>>
>> Just thought I'd throw that out there if there isn't any other obvious
>> problem...
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Mark.
>> 75
>> 82
>> 86
> 
> I'll be following this one, since Adam's GTI has been doing the same thing,
> and that's one reason it's parked. Title issues/time being the other
> reasons.
> 
> Cathy
> 
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