On my '90 Westy, and yours should be similar, the sending unit is attached to the top of the water tank which you get to by taking off the metal access plate in the cupboards between the stove and the rear closet. Unscrew the top of the water tank and lift it out. The sending unit is about 16' long with a magnetic float switch that rises and falls with the water level. Sounds like yours is stuck. With the sender out try moving the float and see if your display panel changes readings. The VW part # is 255 070 812. Good Luck. Russ Tobin Copley wrote: > > Folks: > > Quick Q: the water level indicator light in my 82 westy seems to be stuck > one level above "empty". I'd assumed we were just low, but I filled it up > with water yesterday, and the level indicated did not change. I'm assuming > there is some sort of sender unit in the tank someplace, but Bentley does > not discuss this. > > Could anybody who's tested the sender/guage or replaced the relevant parts > post procedures (or URLs) here? > > (I've tried the archives on this, but it keeps timing out on me. Does that > to most of the times I've tried an archive search...) > > T. > > .-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-. > Tobin T. Copley,MA Research Associate tobin.copley@ubc.ca > Offshore office: Bowen Island, B.C. http://huckleberry.chspr.ubc.ca/ > Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology UBC :(604) 822-6219 > University of British Columbia Bowen Island :(604) 947-0117 > Research affiliations: > -Centre for Health Services and Policy Research http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/ > -BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS http://cfeweb.hivnet.ubc.ca/cfe.html |
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