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<x-charset Windows-1252>Here's my newest confession - until yesterday I was driving without the function of my oil pressure warning light. Stupid? Why yes, naturally. Anyway it turns out that the light is coming on at almost random times. NOT at idle, not at higher RPMs, but often when I first change from 1st to 2nd and start moving through the gear then again when I change to 3rd. Sometimes when turning a sharp corner also. OK the car is a 63 single carb with early (.008" valve setting) heads and god knows what for a case. I do have enough oil in the car so I removed the oil pressure relief valve to clean it up. I have read that the unladen length of the spring in there should be between 62 and 64 mm but when I measured it it was 73mm!! The piston I removed was the old pre-s type. I cleaned up the spring, piston, nut and the hole they came from and reassembled using a 62mm spring from my other single carb engine. Now the light comes on more often! Any ideas on the long spring? Is my oil pump worn, then? Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-charset>