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- Oct 16, 2022
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- Coventry
- Year of Your Van(s)
- 1972
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- Dormobile
Sorry for the long post. I have a stock engine with Electronic Ignition and a new fuel pump after a recent failure. New oil and I have checked the oil pressue with a guage. The guage was showing 19lb on idle after driving to the guy who tested it for me which was only 2.5 miles away so the engine was relatively cool. Then 35lbs at 3500 rpm. The engine runs just fine, until the engine gets hot on a run. I went from Coventry to Malvern and I drove about 30 miles to Hopwood Services and stopped as the Save My Bug light started to flicker. So I stopped for 10 minutes and checked the temp on the dipstick with a heat sensor(I know they aren't great but gave me an idea). The temp on the block was 79 degrees and the dipstick was 95 degrees. The light went off and I decided I had to carry on. It was Busfest and I had the family with me. The light was off then came flickering on the M5 again. I was ticking along at 55mph about 3k revs or just over. I decided to raise the revs a little to 3500revs and 60. At which point the flickering stopped and the light went out. Which I thought was odd. Then after a while slowed a little and it came on again. When I got off the motorway the light flickered all the way until I got to Busfest. The engine was running just fine and the temps were about the same as previously mentioned when I arrived. So then there's a definate problem. I have all the tinware in place and the bus runs fine. The journey home was trouble free other than the light was flickering and pretty much more on that flickering when nearly home. But again it ran fine. What I don't want to happen is for it to end up dead quickly. So I am looking for an easy way to fix this or keep it going. I am guessing it's terminal but would like to see if I could get a bit more life out of it as it runs sweet. I have seen mentioned some oil which may help. I am currently running Morris as recommended by VW. But some have said that 20w50 mineral Westway. Another thing would potentially be heavy duty oil pump. Any help or advice would be great. I ultimatley need a recon engine block but can't do that at the minute.