I'm in Raleigh and have a close relative to your car, but mine's an '84 Jetta GL TD vs your 83. Pretty rare in this setup, and looks like you have a real nice example to start with. I'll be starting the same project this coming weekend for a rebuild. Will be keeping a close eye on this thread. I'm on NC Dubs as well.We need to have an NC IDI diesel meet at some point.
We need to have an NC IDI diesel meet at some point.
...BTW your Bieber avatar is awesome.-Malone
your egt sender looks eeeeerily similar to mine in location and product ps. I THINK (someone please correct this if im wrong) but the low pressure switch, blue[on the right side of the head], triggers no matter what where as there is a higher pressure switch, grey[above the filter], that triggers over a certain RPM read from the W terminal (blue wire) on your alternator. You want to keep the blue one and can scrap the grey one if you're improoving the monitoring with a gauge. That way if you have catastrophic oil loss the low pressure switch will still set off the light & buzzer in your dash incase your gauge fails to raise your awareness.
.... one question i was pressure washing my block the other day and a oring type thing got blown out of the block i have no idea what it was or where it goes. It was a really baby round oring, Im afraid if i get the engine back together i wont have any oil pressure because i dont know what it goes to or the location.
Heres the oil pressure gauge sending unit. im still thing about how im going to tap off the low pressure switch. that sending unit is pretty big
Quote from: dankcorey22 on July 27, 2010, 04:23:56 pm.... one question i was pressure washing my block the other day and a oring type thing got blown out of the block i have no idea what it was or where it goes. It was a really baby round oring, Im afraid if i get the engine back together i wont have any oil pressure because i dont know what it goes to or the location.how small? dipstick o-ring?