You still don't know for sure the cause of the problem. Your head, at LEAST, has most likely suffered damage. Sure, you can throw a bunch of new parts on it, but the engine has 200k on it and has been run until it started cooking the oil. What else can prevent proper oil flow to the top end besides the oil pump?Ĭlick to expand.You drove it two miles AFTER the idiot light came on and your top end started rattling!?! And this was the second time the light came on? Your going to need an engine. I will still install a new oil pump, but now I'm worried that it may not solve the issue. So I removed the pump to see if it was seized, but I was able to rotate it by hand with just my fingers. I inspected the oil pick up tube screen and it was not clogged. On Saturday I drained the oil and dropped the oil pan. There was white smoke coming out of the oil filler cap! At this point I thought it was the oil pump, or a clogged oil pick up tube. I turned the car off and opened the hood. So I returned back home, which was around 2 miles away. But after 10 minutes of driving, the light started blinking again and I started to hear some rattling coming from the top end. So I let the car cool down for like an hour. The level was at 75%, meaning that it had enough oil. However, before pouring more oil I checked the level first. ![]() I thought it needed oil, so I bought a couple of quarts. Last Wednesday my car's oil light started blinking and beeping. I have a 2004 VW Golf 2.0 with 200k miles.
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