[s-cars] RE: oil pump failures audi/vw

[Theodore Chen]

--- QSHIPQ at aol.com wrote:
> Oh yes.  When oil pumps go out on vw microbus/early vanagons, they put
> 300+psi thru the oil filter, which blows out the seal, and the engine goes
> bybye if customer waits too many seconds...

can you describe it?  how are the pumps designed?  what's the failure?
you're talking about a failure of the oil pump itself and not a bypass,
right?

-teddy



	
		
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