High pressure oil buzzer? In my twenty plus years of owning and working on Mk2 16V VW's, this is the first time I've heard of the existence of a high pressure oil alarm. At least with the 2.0 liter Motronic models, there isn't even an audible low pressure oil pressure alarm. Only a red idiot lamp, which illuminates when the ignition is switched on, and will disappear once the engine starts. I believe that the warning lamp will illuminate if the oil pressure drops below something like 7 - 10psi. An engine with worn main bearings, or if the oil level is over about one quart low may cause the warning lamp to flicker at idle, or possibly fully illuminate if things are really bad. The other symptoms you describe could be caused by a lot of issues. I suggest removing the upper timing belt cover and perform a thorough visual inspection. Unfortunately, removing the lower timing belt cover requires removing all the v- belts, as well as the crank shaft pulley and crank damper. Also, I would check the main crank damper bolt. If that were to loosen, the damper could start wobbeling, which may explain the shavings in the bottom of the timing cover. There are many other possible explanations for your issues, but things like this are difficult to troubleshooting via textual explainations. I wish you luck, and always feel free to ask questions as they arise.
~Holland On Dec 24, 2015 20:25, "damac2004" <damac2...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I'm new to these cars. I got one of these a few months ago and planned on > using it as a project to restore for fun. I have been driving it as is > because it worked. I do have to get it smogged and clean up some neglect > but it was getting me around ok with no funky noises. > > Yesterday I came off the freeway and all of a sudden the high pressure oil > buzzer constantly started going off. I heard a racket of screeches and > clunks in the engine bay and the engine was loping near idle speed. So too > many wierd things at once to ignore, but I had to get off the road so i > probably ran the car about a minute after before turning it off. just > putting my safety first because of where i was vs. potentially blowing up a > motor. > > i had to work and came back to cold car. i have good fluids and started > it up for a bit. it ran with just the hint of stumbling although i don't > know if these cars typically do that while warming up. it wasn't loping > the same. i reved it and didn't get the light to come on but noticed the > racket sounded like its on the drive belt system. while engine was running > only odd thing i noticed is shavings i think near the intermediate shaft > from the lower plastic timing belt cover. couldn't quite tell if another > pully was actually touching it. > > im i correct to assume that if something in vbelt system dragged all it > would do is slow down the timing belt, but that would still turn the im > shaft without interference? > > is it possible a pulley wobbled its way into the im shaft and held it up? > i sure didn't smell smoking timing belt and will have to look closer. it > has power steering, alternator, water pump with 2 vbelts. > > or maybe something bad happned inside engine with oil pump or the im > bearings and the pulley side is worn and walking out and hitting? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MK2-16v" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/af959f0b-50cd-474c-917b-f978104e7adb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/af959f0b-50cd-474c-917b-f978104e7adb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/CABrbKBmB02_ufZgDJKc9LTQmFFNy6D7aWgYLJZcx%3Dd32Py%2BrNg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
