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Thread: oil canister check valve spring repair

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    Default oil canister check valve spring repair

    My '90 535ia has the common low oil pressure light syndrome, so today I'm gonna inspect the pressure sensor and oil canister anti-drain check valve.

    Within the past couple of months somebody posted some excellent pictures and procedure for repairing the spring that controls the oil anti-drain check valve. I've searched the archives, to must be using the wrong key words, so cannot find the post.

    The procedure involved the anti-drain spring that keeps the oil from draining from the oil filter.

    Can someone please direct me to that excellent post and pictures of this procedure?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dash01
    My '90 535ia has the common low oil pressure light syndrome, so today I'm gonna inspect the pressure sensor and oil canister anti-drain check valve.

    Within the past couple of months somebody posted some excellent pictures and procedure for repairing the spring that controls the oil anti-drain check valve. I've searched the archives, to must be using the wrong key words, so cannot find the post.

    The procedure involved the anti-drain spring that keeps the oil from draining from the oil filter.

    Can someone please direct me to that excellent post and pictures of this procedure?


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    Thanks, Bill, but it was another posting. It had pics of the internal spring and retaining tabs, which must be bent to extract the spring.

    As I recall, the gist of the posting was that the spring loses umph over time, allowing the oil filter to drain back into the crank case. This was on Rennlist perhaps a couple of months ago.

    Anybody?

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    The excellent article on oil drainback valve is on Shogun's E32 fixes, which is well worth reading for anybody who has low oil pressure indication.

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