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In my '66 square, I have a 1914 and a super street trans with the lower geared fourth gear for lower highway RPM's, with an external oil filter and remote oil cooler, the "quick cool" kind.Shortly after I had got the car back from the engine shop who put all this neat stuff in, I noticed that my oil pressure light would go on after a fairly long(2o miles or longer) drive at the stop lights when the engine was below 1200 rpm. So, to have more knowledge of what was going on in the car, I put in a oil press gauge, a cyl head gauge, and an oil temp gauge. After doing this, I noticed that I had 65psi at startup, 30-35psi driving around town at moderate rpm's, and about 2psi at the light after a good haul. After a long drive, 40 miles or more, I barely made the needle move on the pressure gauge, until I revved the engine up past 1500-1800 rpm's. My cyl head temps were "normal" ranging from 300-400 degrees F depending on terrain. After the short hauls around town, my oil temp was a good 215 deg. F, and the long ones 250 deg F plus! You could imagine my concern! I looked at where the oil cooler was mounted, and the jerks mounted it rite above the tranny! At first I bypassed the cooler, to see if it was cooling the oil or heating it, and the temp lowered to a long haul temp of about 215 deg F. So, I decided a shabby, non-permanent mounting of the cooler to the front axle beam was necessary to determine what "correct" placement of the cooler would do. Since the move, my temps have NEVER gone much above 180 deg F!! NEVER put the cooler anywhere but in direct air, and especially over the tranny. Still, I have the problem with the oil pressure. True, it might take more time to get to the point of 1 or 2 psi at idle, but not too much longer. My local parts guy, who has a 64 crew cab with a 2110 and no external oil cooler says that his engine (rebuilt the same time as mine) runs at 45-60 psi on the highway, and 10-20 psi at idle, but just not on hot days. He says my oil pressure is not supposed to be that low, and something sounds fishy. I think it might be one of the two plungers (I have a newer case), either the oil bypass plunger or the oil pressure plunger. The shop that built my motor doesn't seem to want to offer an answer, so I'm putting it to all of you. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Nathaniel Miller '66 squareback '75 beetle _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]