High Miler

[mr.mindless]

Charge pipe popped off the intake horn bringing Sarah’s Jetta back from inspection

Under boost accelerating in 4th appreciating the power of a _modern_ dumpbus I thought I grenaded a driveline lol

Took me a second to evaluate road speed and R’s were still correlated, I just lost 80% power.

[mr.mindless]

RF brake caliper dragging. New to have a front doing something stupid, it’s always a rear. Not enough to pull, but enough to be warm after noticing a brake pedal difference.

Always something

[mr.mindless]

The always-perfect oil pressure on this 462,000 mile animal dropped to the bottom of the gauge as I arrived home just now. Over the course of the last 2 miles of the drive, noticed around 20, then 10, then less as I parked.

No funny noises.

Gauge slightly reactive to RPM, so not a -dead- sender or gauge

Typical is 45 hot idle and higher at cruise
Oil consumption has always been negligible. Maybe a quart low at a 7500-10000 mile, 3 gallon change.

I see I’m at 7750mi, will check and probably change.

Very concerning.

[mr.mindless]

Restarted after writing that, showing 40psi hot idle

Maybe it’s another cluster fuck up like the fuel gauge a couple weeks ago

[cracker]

fingers crossed for ya!

[mr.mindless]

did a little reading this morning - found that the pressure gauge is a complete lie run by the ECM based off of a 6psi pressure switch.
there's a pressure port on top of the oil filter housing, I'll shop for a pressure transducer to add there to the CTS gauges to get a real number since concerns were brought up....

I drove the XJ today.

[M4wdFab]

they salted this week!  put the xj away till spring!

[mr.mindless]

called it fine due to rain. everything else down and broken

[mr.mindless]

68psi cold idle

[M4wdFab]

that sounds better than looking for a new 6.7


maybe weird electrical thing?

[mr.mindless]

15-18 hot idle. 50-60 hot cruise at 2,000 rmp

I think it was a dash snafu. Will be interesting to see how much difference fresh oil and filter makes. Clean fuel filters is the difference between 7-10 and 2-3 psi…

[M4wdFab]

hmm  15-18 hot idle sounds kinda low but not sure what it normally had been running

[M4wdFab]

thats crazy its a fake number though lol

i feel lied to!

[mr.mindless]

Yeah ZERO clue what it was 100.000 miles ago and if that’s same or worse.

Factory low pressure warning is 6psi so I figure over 10-12 is hopefully non fatal.

Gauge is just showing 40-60 at all times no matter what. So dumb. But I should have expected it.

I really thought it was a real number since it DOES move with rpm. That’s just… tricky. deceitful. rude.

If you have that other wiring left over let me know. It’s cheap to get just a pressure sensor but the extra interface for sensors is $177 itself. Silly. Too bad I can’t just make the dash gauge tell truth - but the dash is definitely failing intermittently so maybe better to bypass it anyway.

[M4wdFab]

i have everything that was on my truck that i took off (broken CTS display?)

and an extra one of these kits i believe. 

https://www.jegs.com/i/Edge-Products/367/98611/10002/-1?CAWELAID=1710673933&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=44693592161&CATCI=aud-454389669042%3Apla-213811363271&CATARGETID=230006180039218810&cadevice=c&jegspromo=&gclid=Cj0KCQiA14TjBRD_ARIsAOCmO9bwFeiNfhB3_Rt7092zdsAY7KCbDwwAzf1PFMueflUJVmKZkXUiWi0aAh4CEALw_wcB&fbclid=IwAR3TAbYyBMQhCXjWQxShYad6mZNpWAenHQksSqfCX5wcAWqaUKEH7nz2bqE

i can check tomorrow