[Vwdiesel] Oil pressure problem

[gary]

Before you jump off the deep end, I would check the pressure at the head
with a mechanical gauge. You could simply have a bad sender. With as
much oil in the head area as you say, this would be my first guess.

The pressure felt at the filter and the head should be almost identical.
You can't have 70psi at the filter and zero at the head without some
serious restriction in the head oil circuit.

You mentioned the gasket was installed correctly. "OBEN" visible looking
down on the gasket tab?

-Gary



On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:11, mikitka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> New to the list and have enjoyed all that I have read.  I have just rebuilt
> a 91 Jetta TD with the 1.6.  It is bored .020 over and has new pistons,
> rings, bearings, well you get the idea. The head was done and is good.  The
> problem I'm having is when the engine gets up to operating temp I have zero
> oil pressure.  At cold start up with 15w-40 Pennzoil Long Life I get 20 psi
> at the head port but at temp it is zero even at 3K RPM.  This is causing my
> oil light/buzzer to go off and it is driving me crazy.  I have put 1600
> miles on the engine since I rebuilt it. Runs strong as can be. The head is
> getting so much oil that it is getting sucked out of the valve are by the
> breather.  The head has been checked, the head gasket is installed properly,
> it is a new oil pump, all new bearings. Just no oil pressure at the head.
> The oil port at the oil filter has 70psi at 2K rpm.  Has anyone else have
> this problem.  How can I disable the oil light/buzzer?  It gets annoying
> driving down the highway. Not to mention in town when there is no
> engine/wind noise to drown it out.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
> 
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