Date:         Tue, 23 May 2000 09:29:07 +0200
Reply-To:     Peter van Marwijk <peter@MEDIAWEB.NL>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Peter van Marwijk <peter@MEDIAWEB.NL>
Subject:      More overheating...
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Hi,

I have owned my 87 Transporter/Vanagon for almost three weeks and yesterday
I had the first alarming thing happening to me; the overheating  indicator
was blinking... Turns out that the gauge (orwhatyoucallit) is stuck
somewhere in the middle and it only uses half the space it has (so I can't
really tell how hot the engine is getting).
Funny thing is that it went on after about 5 kliometres of driving from
work where it had been parked all day. I stopped at a gas station and
checked the coolant / antifreeze and it was actually quite low until I
released the pressure and it filled up again. This morning, I filled it up,
but there wasn't much to go in (without pressure on it, it seems fine).
And just the day before, I drove a hundred kilometres on the freeway
without a problem...

A couple of questions:
- Is there a way to fix the temperature indicator, or tell the temperature
otherwise?
- Apart from the coolant, is there anything else that could be an obvious
problem? The oil has just been changed (and it doesn't leak).

Greetings,

Peter.

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