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@edsnova posted:

28 pounds at 2500 RPM is fine though.

Is the gauge accurate?

More relevant: do you have an oil temp (or pressure) gauge and oil pressure light sender T'd into the same port on the engine? Because when you do that, it's real common to get that "low pressure" light at idle. And it's not an indication of trouble.

Ed, that's exactly what I've got. And I replaced a cheap eBay 100psi gauge with a 60 psi VDO gauge today. But, TBH, I put the gauge in there in the first place on the recommendation of our local aircooled VW expert because the light was flickering @ 900 rpm. (Which may explain why it's flickering at 1,000 now)

I teed the gauge in there because I'm still trying to find a 4-Gauge combo gauge for my dash.

Thanks for the good news. I'm still going to do all the above.  The more time that goes by, the more I'm troubled by my engine taking 10-15 miles to warm up, even with the thermostat flappers closed. After all my "research" yesterday, I'm convinced my bypass isn't properly performing it's basic duty: keeping cold oil out of the cooler to speed warmup. And I've been planning on the remote oil filter since, well, forever.

FWIW: as an aside, for those of you using Mahle OC 25 filters (which I think are very good) I finally found the cross reference to Baldwin, which I think are great filters, recommended by the mechanic that used to work in my Alfetta. B228 is the Baldwin number. They also have a version of the taller Mahle some folks use, but I didn't write that number down.

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