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xoo00oox
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Stripped66
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:36 am Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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That's one way to avoid the VW sludge problem...
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I don't think electrickery works that way |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:56 pm Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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Obviously imported from AUS market.
I’m a bit curious as the dialogue after this discovery. What do you say to the customer, exactly?
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steve244
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modok
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:39 am Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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The oil pickup is installed backward.
Probably the rod bearings have been converted into dust now in the bottom of the pan. |
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cbeck
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:10 am Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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Was that just on the utube channel just rolled in?
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My cut in half and rebuild thread
www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=647779 |
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xoo00oox
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Location: East Nassau, NY
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:30 am Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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| cbeck wrote: |
| Was that just on the utube channel just rolled in? |
Yes. I had posted the picture on Reddit and they contacted me and asked if they could use it in their YouTube video. |
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oprn
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:07 am Post subject: Re: A VW was towed to my shop for low oil pressure...... |
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Oh ya! These things happen!
Years ago my cousin bought a used Rabbit. A year later he came to me because it wasn't running right. The PO had built a home grown skid pan and when we took the oil pan off we found out why. The pan had hit a rock but it looked like the guy beat it back out with the same rock! The oil pickup was bent up and cracked where it bolts to the oil pump. Then the guy use about a 1/2 gallon of silicone to put the pan back on. It had run down into the pan effectively filling the screen on the oil pickup. To top it off he disconnected the oil pressure switch.
The valve train on that engine was totally destroyed, every lobe on the cam, the bearings and the cam followers all had pulled metal. The cylinder walls were scored and all crankshaft bearings bad!
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