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For those of you following my oil pressure oddities... Another "green light on" instant replay this morning. Let the car (basically stock '69 w/ Berg full-flow, pressure relief cover, smaller-than-HP1 filter) warm up a bit, rolled a couple hundred feet across the parking lot, and pulled out nice & gently onto to 45mph road. Green light on, at about the shift into second gear. :( I was staring at the damn thing when it went on, as this is the third time it's happened. Key off instantly, coast onto a side street. My previous hypothesis was that it was the cheap/small oil filters getting clogged or, more likely, damaged due to cold oil pressure. But hey--this one has like 80 miles on it! Come on! ...and I'd warmed it up, and it wasn't *that* cold outside. In a moment of sheer brilliance (or stupidity--a fine line, and dependent upon the results) I started the car up (yeah, green light still on) and stomped on the gas--I dunno, kicked it right up to 3,000rpm or 4,000rpm or whatever. Oil light out right away! O.k.--new theories, anyone? I've got a dual-relief case; any probs with the relief plungers/springs? The Berg pump cover? I don't get it. -Greg '69 & '71 Squarebacks '63 Beetle