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Just finished restoration! Mk1 GTi 2 years of graft

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Just finished restoration! Mk1 GTi 2 years of graft

so i have just finished a 2 year project to restore my Campaign.

I have had a full engine rebuild, top end, bottom end, properly engineered, cam laid in professionally, all parts new… new sensors everything!

Yet the oil buzzer still comes on when run up to warm at idle speed. I have tried everything… read every comment on the web about the problem but cannot resolve it. I have run a separate light bulb to the sensor to bypass the circuit board on the dash board and that still lights up when the engine is warm and idling and then goes off when revs above 2000…

I have replaced the high and low pressure sensors twice each… they are brand new… is there anything else I should be looking for?

Could the head or the engine block be cracked? If this wasn't such a common fault I'd be more worried but id like to resolve the problem because it is the only bit left that betrays the cars age.

Also how do I upload images to here, I am sure you'd all like to see the quality of the end result.

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Get a oil pressure gauge and make sure it really do have good pressure. On a new engine, cold engine 5+bar min at idle, warm 2+bar min. When revved what ever the max reading on the scale is.

Make sure the switches/wires are the right way around. One is open then closes under presure and the other closed then open.

1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet

The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.

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images, firstly put them all in photobucket, then when they are there hovver the cursor over the photo, n a drop down should appear, at the bottom of that there should be a code "img" left click it then right click it to find the thing for copy, then click paste on your mk1 page, kinda dodgy instructions  :roll:

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