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General Information => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: superbro on December 10, 2010, 07:31:55 am

Title: Oil pressure?
Post by: superbro on December 10, 2010, 07:31:55 am

Dose any one know the stock oil psi on a 1.6 n/a 83 ish.

Thanks Aaron

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: Vincent Waldon on December 10, 2010, 08:55:25 am

The service manual provides one official spec:

"minimum of 2 bar (29psi) at 2000 RPM at normal operating temperature (rad fan has cycled once)"

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: superbro on December 10, 2010, 09:37:35 am

Welll then i have way to high oil pressure……

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: Vincent Waldon on December 10, 2010, 09:48:06 am

It can be very high (as in peg a 5 bar / 100 psi gauge) on a cold engine but should drop as the oil warms and thins... ending up at the VW spec for a nice warm engine.

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: Wayland on December 10, 2010, 10:00:17 am

I get 100+psi cold running, 65psi hot running, and about 25psi hot idle with 15w40 oil, unknow miles on engine.

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: motomike33y on December 10, 2010, 10:23:40 am

that's similar to my vanagon, which blew the seams from an oil filter this fall-had been in for a while and must have had some irregularity.

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on December 10, 2010, 11:16:42 am

mine pegs a 120 psi gauge cold..

dunno how much it runs hot, driving down the road, but i know i have ~37psi @ hot idle..

(its the same oil pump from my last 3 engines!)

Title: Re: Oil pressure?
Post by: somedumbjerk on January 29, 2011, 02:30:47 pm

i have pretty high oil pressure as well. when the car starts it's peged at 100 (highest my gauge reads) and eventually makes it down to 20 or 30 at idle. when i reach pretty high boost (no boost gauge but the turbo is spinning pretty fast) the oil pressure goes up to about 65 or 80, depending on engine temp, and the oil light in the dash blinks.