[Vwdiesel] I shaft bearings

[Mark Shepherd]

Nick this was one of your old postings; but you never did
solve the oil pressure problem did you?
It struck me that if their was an oversized hole  for the
cam in the caps then it WOULD give you plenty of oil and no
pressure in fact this could rob the crank of some oil. Not
sure if this was covered previously after the distraction of
the valve stem seal malarkey...
Miser


Rat said...
a question. The shop changed out my I shaft bearings,  At
least they
have it down on my bill. What if they didn't line up the oil
holes
correctly, could that cause low oil pressure?  Or would that
cause high
pressure?  I was going to pull it since I have the engine
all apart anyway,
can be done in the car, just have to remove the front mount
and the back
passenger mount and drop the engine down. I figure I can
pull the oil filter
housing and look in at the rear bearing that way to check.
I do know that
the bushings around the oil pump shaft are in correctly. The
machine shop
told me my head will be done tomorrow. I'm interested to see
what kind of
surface it will have on it.  It needed all new guides and
valves, so new
lifters went in as well as seals. If all that was worn out
would it be
possible to allow low pressure as well since the oil was
able to flow easily
through out the head with little resistance and all the blow
by coming
around the valves?

Nick