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General Information => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: vanagondiesel on October 19, 2005, 05:52:35 pm
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Another question. I have a non turbo solid lifter head 1.6 Caddy truck.
I put in a Meyle high flow oil pump. The VDO oil pressure showed pressures in excess of 120 lbs when the truck fired up.
I only briefly ran that pump when I realized I had a bad or failing injection pump. SO while waiting for the new pump to arrive I pulled the high flow hydrolic oil pump and went back to the original oil pump which showed pressures about 60 lbs at road speed.
My mechanic, who is a whiz kid on A-1 and A-2, and A-3 (old road racer GTI man) in fact say NOT A PROBLEM. Solid lifter engines can handle high pressure oil. He felt that sort of pressure might not be any problem. The filter did not explode by the way. I was runing Rotella 15-40w.
I have a 82 Vanagon diesel (1.6 non turbo). It had a nasty habit of blowing oil filters up and blowing oil past the oil filter seal when cold. I got tired of the mess in my driveway so I tossed that pump and replaced it with another pump.
I was afraid the Caddy was going to do the same thing. Afraid of the nasty mess on a cold morning......I pulled the pump.
IS.... :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: 120 lbs of oil pressure and 100 lbs of oil pressue not an issue for a standard 1.6? Should I put that high flow oil pump back in?
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