So I have a real problem with my 2.1L this time.  I�ve known someday I will
have to confront the noisy AT which doesn�t like to downshift with the petal
to the floor.  And I have been gearing up for the proverbial head gaskets.
That little pool of antifreeze collecting on the casting stamp just below
the spark plug has been welling for a year ( so it�s either a crack or
spilling from one of the external head nuts?)......

But now I will really worry with that oil pressure light.  The light has
been flickering after the engine gets warm.  Mostly at stops, sometimes out
on the highway there�s some flickering.  Yesterday, at a stop light, the
light came on nice and solid. A sickening feeling came over me.  I put it in
neutral and the light went out.  (sounds bad huh?)

Here�s the stats that are driving me crazy:  I�m the seventh owner of an 84
westy.  Through research, I�ve discovered the engine is a 2.1L (MV block #)
and I�ve tracked down the VW dealership who installed it.  They said it was
a �new rebuilt with new crank, bearings....�  I didn�t ask for any
additional info--maybe I should have??  There�s less than 70,000 miles on
this rebuild.

The previous owner installed a new oil pressure sender about a year ago, two
months before I bought it.  I found the wire off this sender was shorting
out on the engine tin and replaced it last spring.

My starting points are an oil change (just over 2,000miles).  I was going to
change the oil pressure sender (i think I only have the low
pressure--digijet), but since it�s only a year old???

My last hope is to do the five minute engine flush thing.  That scares me,
but I guess it�s a last hope move.  It just hate the thought of what�s left
over in the engine after I drain that stuff back out.  There�s got to be
residue and I�m not about to waste oil by doing a third oil change am I?  Is
that flush stuff TOO hard on a engine.

Any thoughts on the situation would be helpful. I�m only hoping the wire is
shorting out again.

My gripe section:
The thought that the problem is bearing wear(=new engine) is a very big
bummer. What�s the point of these rebuilt engines if the bearings can�t go
some real distance!  I am just going to buy another car to start with, since
I can�t be without a car.  Then I guess the obvious choice is the Tiico,
since I�m not about to put another rebuilt weakling in there.  (and I was
looking forward to the gasket job--I'm not a really in the club without
doing one of those!!)

Thanks,
Brian Cochran,
84 westy
Carnation WA
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