Removing oil sender unit

[rpage]

Is it possible to remove the oil sender unit without draining the oil from the engine. It seems to me that the unit sits above the level of the oil in the sump but I thought I'd check before I trash the garage floor.

Just as an aside to make you laugh I got through my MOT this week at the second attempt, Hooray. Drove the car home from the garage, opened the garage door, went to drive it in and it refused to start. So now I have an MOT and it won't move..!!

How I laughed

[rpage]

Forgot to say, its an S3 2.9 engine

[roulli]

RPage,

I changed my sender on a 2.9l, without removing the oil.

Cheers
Patrick

[Gilesy]

As long as you don't have the engine running when you do it, then you can change the sender without any oil loss.

Cheers
Ian

[Gilesy]

As long as you don't have the engine running when you do it, then you can change the sender without any oil loss.

Cheers
Ian

[tonystiny]

Gilesy said: As long as you don't have the engine running when you do it, then you can change the sender without any oil loss.

Cheers
Ian

Just in case you didn't get it the first two times!

[Gilesy]

Oops, no idea how that happend . Advice so good I sent it twice!!