No oil pressure - now what?

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- T Berk <bayareaberk@yahoo.com> wrote:

> -- Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Monday I actually drove to work (it was chilly
> > dammit) and just a scant 10 seconds or so 
> > after leaving the driveway, the oil light 
> > & buzzer came on.  Drove for another 3-4
> > seconds 'til I crested the hill, and shut 
> > er down and coasted into the parking lot.  
> > What was left of the engine oil was dripping 
> > from the filter.

> I kind of like the crack the sensor fitting and burp
> the system idea although I have no direct experience
> with that exactly to back it up.
> 
> When the motor has sat for awhile, what is the
> dipstick reading right now?

'Tis basically full.

I cracked the sensor loose and cranked the car.  It would
*barely* run, like the timing was off.  Lined everything up
on TDC, and found that the intermediate shaft had slipped a
tooth from last week.  So for the moment, moved the
distributor a little to get it to run.  Started it up for
probably 10 seconds or so, and not a drop out of the
pressure sender hole.

This is sounding disgustingly like I'm going to be dropping
the pan in the near future.  Anyone have any thoughts at
what is going on here???

Ungrateful wretch, I just spent the better part of a month
replacing a bunch of parts under the hood, now I'm going to
do MORE?  *grumble*


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato 
'96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.

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