We have great news on the Golf GTI oil pressure issue, fingers crossed we’ve fixed the problem. We get Paul Dove in amongst the Vauxhall Redtop engine, plus, we bake Isaac in the sun
Early 80's Ford Escort 1.6. The ones that had head gasket issues and were interference engines. Rebuilt several of them. Had one the oil pressure would drop when turning hard at low speed. Only one direction. The hydraulic lash adjusters would start clicking very slightly/randomly. Checked with manual gauge. Pressure was in fact changing. Drop pan, changed pick-up & oil pump. No joy. After some thought about oil flow in that engine...looked at camshaft. Oil was pumped into the hollow cam then out to lash adjusters. The distributor end was supposed to have a plug threaded into it. Popped distributor out to find the new cam didn't have the plug installed. Pulled a plug out of old cam and installed it. FIXED! The oil pan didn't have much of a baffle and with the excess "leakage" at the distributor end, the pick-up was uncovering when you turned. I'd done a bunch and never run into it before.
I can’t tell you how glad I am that you are super busy, you are a nice fella…you priorities are the 3 Fs family followers and faster, may you and your business continue to prosper “you won’t know me as I deleted my main RU-vid account like a Pratt but I’ve followed you from day one stay busy be lucky and can’t wait for your next video.👍👍
I tell ya now, you would be stuffed without Isaac. He sounds like a great worker and good young bloke. Look after him because they are bloody hard to find.
Thanks Lee, the missing or defective check valve in the oil filter housing for the Golf makes sense and on the Kit car Diff it sounds like the Pinnion bearing on the way out, check for up and down movement on the prop, there shouldn’t be any.
Every days a school day Lee. FIngers crossed you've got to the bottom of the VW Gulfs low oil pressure problem. Great to see your busy boys Take care & stay safe guys 🆒️ 👍🍀
…..fantastic update as always Lee. Going the extra mile, in this case for the VW Golf, is what it’s all about & there will be many of your subscribers who will nod their heads at your tenacity, myself included. Plenty of work in your shop to keep you more than busy……the lads seem to be right up for the long haul 👍🏻🤘🏻
There are kits to modify the carbs to compensate, they have been around for a long time. My GPz 900r runs K+N filters with kitted carbs. Most modern bikes are fuel injected and just remapped.
Yeah, some of us learn that after trying to get those cool pod filters to work. Go back to stock airbox and don't go chopping it up and it'll run like it should. Bike CV carbs don't run open at all.
Many years ago i was a parts sales rep for a French auto manufacturer some of the engines had oil filters mounted inverted or at funny angles and at at the stores counter lots of punters would not pay the price for a genuine oil filter "cor they are half that next door" so let them go and dont argue, the difference was audible when starting from cold, NO pressure releif valve in the cheapo,let it stand for a day and a cold start meant you could hear bearings knock!! everthing was dry and how many owners cant start an engine without using there BIG throttle foot. That was in the 80,s and i still only use the genuine item. There is a reason for them being cheaper!
Sent the apprentice out in the heat (lol), I had to fix a tractor just on the Queensland, New South Wales border. My spanners were that hot I had to wear my mechanics gloves just to hold the spanners. I took a five litre insulated water bottle filled with ice and water, which I finished within an hour. by the way the temperature was 52 degrees Celsius in the shade.
With the Golf you will find the parts man just looks at a screen. Many years ago mechanics of my age moved into parts , basically creaking knees and worn out fingers etc. BUT they had done the job and were worth their weight in gold. They knew what parts were required and the seals , locking tabs etc would be required. We have had the same problem with TPS, Ford and Vauxhall ! We had an older guy at BMW ex workshop foreman , who would actually say " never had to replace one of those..have you looked at.... 9 times out of 10 he was correct....
There was a parts guy like that at the Chrysler dealership I used when I had an Imp back in the 70s. Knew what you wanted, what you didn't know you needed and where it all was in stores.
The air filter socks will change your AFR's quite drastically, so best to get it on a dyno and have it logged with and without them and any changes made
Used to holiday at perrenporth on liskey caravan park, Rob was an excellent manager/owner and alway had a room with a view so to speak. Never knew they had a track down there though but i was on beach duty with wife an kids lol. Horrible job changing those oil filter housings we ordered 3 before we got one that didn’t have a manufacturing fault/crack in the housing not a quick job either under that manifold.
nice to see that strait six that reminds me of the jag i bought back in the 60s ery nice but i could not get insurance for it as i was too young thanks for the video on this hot day
@@andrewsmart2949 thanks for letting me know when you get old you loose track of things around stoke on trent we used to have lots of engineering places you could have a re boar or cylinder head done but i can not think of any now
Mitsubishi evo, 4G63. The first one I bored, the bores weren't at exactly 90 deg to the face and with the boring bar clamped to the face, it went off to one side. Don't know if they're all like that but it certainly wasn't the only one. Maybe only the later ones, 8 and 9?
Re the filter socks- I’ve had them restrict a of lot air flow on side drafts on the dyno. And even trying to suck themselves in. They are good for some things
Socks generally restrict the air flow and richen the mixture, was an old trick back in the day when you'd not got your jetting quite right with clamp on filters.
Love this channel and its honesty. Get the kit car to a reputable dyno and have it set up then you will know for sure its not leaning out on higher rpm
Had a caddie oil filter housing apart today I think the valve they are referring to is just non-return valve specs for the oil pressure is very low on the engine all the data we could find said.6 of a bar at tickover
Ha, I nominated the filter housing in the comments of that video. Most commonly it’s the cap that’s missing the little end piece with the o ring on. Usually broken off allowing the oil to run straight back to the sump.
Or someone knew that the new filter housings didn't come with them and whoever sold the housing should have mentioned this. Our business is really suffering from a lack of knowledgeable parts people with most being totally dependent on the computer listings. How helpful would it have been if the fellow/gal who took the order for the housing would have mentioned that the new part needed this valve? Quite a lot I think.
@@recoilrob324 if the person who called up and asks for the part didn’t know about the valve from the garage where the job was in bits at then a parts adviser looking at a screen of part numbers isn’t going to know either are they? Also that parts advisor isn’t a expert in every single component on every single engine vw ever made so let’s try to be reasonable and not point the finger of blame on the manufacturer and retailer. The parts advisor sold the part the customer asked for.
@@recoilrob324 Those days have long since gone 😕 My TPS are on the ball most of the time tbh. If you were fitting a new house on an old block replacing the oil valve wouldn't be required baring it was faulty. The new engine didn't come with either the housing or the valve by the sounds of it & there lies the problem,you fit a new housing but don't know a valve is also required baring looking at the parts fitch....Now we back to TPS 🤔
@@derekcable imo, if a part is modified or superseded by another part, then it should include whatever else is needed to make that part work correctly...
@@celtos255 Think about it if the block still the same & the modified housing doesn't need a different valve unit then that wouldn't be the case. Tbh this just a case neither the housing or the valve came on the block & the people who was fitting it wasn't aware it was missing due to not being familiar with this engine.
Have you tried a Colourtune tester on the carbies with and without the socks? We use the tester on aircraft engines as it shows immediately if you are rich or lean at any point of the throttle position. With the mirror and accessories that come with the glass spark plug it has solved countless problems we have had over the years by giving real time results. Gunson makes them still I believe. We use them on fuel injection too!
Great advice. In the 70s I had all the bits machined by Howley Racing at Warrington to build myself a 1400 Mini engine which I fitted to a bare shell which I then built up. The carbs were jetted using the Gunson. Still have them; Mini and Gunson. Lee's videos take me back.
Kit car, put it back to std on air filter, take it for a spin couple of miles on fast dual carriageway. Whip out spark plugs, best way to check if running lean or rich.
With the glimpses we see of the layout I am still convinced you could re-jig the unit a bit and make a clean fancy build area in house, lick spit and paint in the entire thing, job done, cheaper long run imo. You just wonna park the Lambo in a shiney unit I recon...hehehe
Typically with the RamAir filters on 2 stroke motorbikes you would also have expansion chamber exhausts and you would go up a couple of jet sizes also. In your case they would probably need mapping with your ECU maybe. :)
Hi lee, about the vw engine, I know its useless information BUT the other day I was going to say "sounds like an oil pressure relief valve fault" but i suppose thats what most people would jump to!
I suggest you put exhaust gas temperature sensor and gauge with probes in 1 and 4 exhaust. I got mine from Pegasus pegasusautoracing Part number 1082 plus two probes 1080. Self powered so easy to do. Also recommend innovatemotorsports Wide band Oxygen Sensor and Gauge for you kit car so you know what it is doing. It is more likely that if the foam filters have been heavily oiled that it is rich rather than lean. I have no assocciation with either company but these two cheap instruments don't need a power source and are engine savers.
I thought that you were a sensible guy Lee….but then you tell us you’re getting married…you think customers are bad…just wait 18 months and you’ll find out compared to marriage the customers cost you less,cause less grief and generally are less hassle than having a wife you can’t get rid of
I've owned about 20 redtop, never blown one up through hard driving. Probably half of them have died from oil pump failure, pressure regulating valve sticks in the pumps.
I had that happen on a Audi. The silly people bought a second hand oil housing. It was also broken. So I bought them a new one as you do. I said, where is the old one? I need the oil switches etc. Oh.....we left that at the wreckers. So new sensors too. And then that happened! The oil light would come on at idle. Now I know why.
build your own track there is plenty of brownfield sites available, ive a mini coopere with the same issue low oil pressure when hot, still working on that...
And a rubber suit with pullover head protection and a mask and wellies and big jacket with hood and a hi viz vest and hard hat oh and rubber gloves with steel end finger tips and someone else to pull the trigger 😀 Im HSE u no
You don't say what the valve is that you replaced on the Golf. If (and I do mean if, because I don't have any significant VW experience) it's a bypass valve to allow the oil to bypass the filter if the filter gets blocked I can't see that solving the idle oil pressure. I do have experience of sock type air filters and all they have ever achieved on my engines is a power loss and ruined driveability - that's on DCOEs or DHLAs. A full airbox type filter is vastly better.
As I listen to your videos, you tend to spend just a few hours on some engines. I am wondering whether you would recommend some kind of cleaning on an engine at, say, 100k miles. I would be willing to spend a few hundred if I could catch an issue and get another 100k miles.
Would of been worth the customer of that Rover V8 paying for top-hat liner/sleeves because if that block decides to crack behind a liner at some point (these engines are not getting any younger) then it will be a nightmare , you will also observe the head gasket fire-ring dont seal onto the standard liner top edge but on the ali deck face itself far from ideal
Nice comprehensive video Lee, you are a dab hand at it now. Good to see you are busy, keeps the boys happy too. I take it you will be honeymooning surely. You deserve it and am sure especially your intended. Good luck, we'll miss you for the time you will be away.
do you put warnings on rebuilt motors saying they must be primed before starting them ,ive worked with idiots who rev the shit out of engines when just been fit and wonder why they failed
I'm seeing this video now and I'm wondering if mines had one, now I used my original oil filter housing out of my 2012 gti mk6 and I didn't remember seeing any valve.. Now could my original could have had one and it might have fell out some how, do you have any pictures of this valve in the housing, please send to me
is it worth trying to adjust the mixture at the oil change? it might only need tweeking... seems mad that 2 pieces of tape are still used to stop all that headlight glass from shattering debris, a simple circle of the wrap on your van with a marker pen cross from the scrutineer would bring it up to date
Hello there. I have inquestion. Audi A5 2.0 tfsi when it s turned off it appears the message “oil pressure too low turn of the engine” But my engine is off. How is that? Do you know?
Do you acid dip and derust the Jaguar block internal water ways . Having done loads of XK engines and overheating has often been down to lack of anti freeze and corrosion .
Did that end up fixing it? I’m having the same issue with my mk7 right now and it didn’t fix it. This seems to be a wicked common issue and loads of people point to the filter housing and valve but no one has ever said if it fixed it. I’m about to give up at this point and just assume it’s a feature of the car now.
@@famom9198 nope. Only step next is to buy the old filter housing from somewhere and try that. Just been rolling my foot off the brake and gently pushing the throttle to hold the rpm’s up a tiny bit at lights. Really annoying
Lee congratulations on your forth coming marriage enjoy but have a pre nup regards the business or you may be well out of pocket not all girls are like that but I’ve seen many years of hard work ruined VW filter housing with no valve in what’s the point of that TPS are shocking were I live the staff are miserable their attitude not very good yet were my son lives down south the only thing they don’t do is fit the part great channel top lad 👍👨🏻🏭🍺
interesting about the oil pressure valve - having a similar problem with a TSI 1.4 duelcharged after having timing chain done .. rattles /slow to build pressure about every 6th-8th start , what was the size motor of your GTI ? LOVE THE NO BS " AND SAYING WHAT IT IS/WAS ... keep it up .
The 1.4 supercharged and turbo engine rarely get past 100-120,000 miles without needing a replacement. One of worst engines vag have ever made. So expensive to maintain for its size.
It looks like the shop should spring for a wide brimmed Panama hat for Isaac to wear while he’s washing and prepping engine blocks and heads. He’s pretty fair skinned and should protect himself as much as possible to prevent sunburn and worse.
@@Fastfreddyii Safety glasses are useless while pressure washing. Debris can get under the lenses or around the side shields and into your eyes. Goggles or safety glasses in conjunction with a face shield is what’s needed.
OK i will add a comment that will have people laughing, as anyone who has never owned one just doesnt know. Many, many years ago in my impoverished youth i took a Lada in as a part excgange for a sales car. As it didnt owe me anything i thought i would abuse it till it died. I went to the local agent for advice on what to look for, and was told theres not really anything. The only thing i was advised was motor factor branded spares are at least as good quality as original equipment, BUT, only use OE Lada oil filters. It was then explained to me there was a rubber flap in the filter that stopped back flow at an idle and it stopped you running a bearing. I used many different manufacturers parts, but kept a stock of three or four Lada oil filters. The thing ran well, and hard as me and my mates tried we couldnt kill it.
i just installed a new oil filter housing and i'm having this issue with low oil pressure at idle and my brother works at vw and he changed sensor and tried digging into it but we got no where can you confirm it was that valve?
Can you time stamp you videos. The thump nail is why most click but always on about other things. Times stamps would help i rekon but i dont claim to know how this is done or how long it would take
I'd love to watch your channel more, but I do wish you'd split up the vlog stuff and make some actual technical videos. It's all just a mismash. Yo don't even put the engines shown in the description so someone could search for info. For all the content you make, it's hard to actually get anything from it.
Those socks should be washed from the inside to the outside. My friends bike would suck those flat if cleaned wrong. Was way way better if washed correctly .FYI.
Hi Lee Like your channel, Very much. I have been in the engine business for 50 bears. Can you please stop calling cam cover's Rocker Cover's on engines with o h c cylinder heads. I am not trying to be a smart ass but it could confuse some less informed people. Keep up the great work you are doing there I think you guys are soon to be a dying breed.
