Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:52:16 -0700
Reply-To: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: guage choices.
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All,
I had a cylinder head temp on my old 71 westy and it did not do much.
I drove it all over So. Cal desert, Nevada, Utah and Colo. once it
warmed up to about 350 it pretty much sat there. It took a lot of
time to get there (at 350) in the winter time.
The other gauge that I would install, depending where you live is the
outside temp gauge fro VDO, it was found on SAABs back in the 80s.
This will tell you when the road starts to freeze and how much colder
it is outside.
The Oil temp and pressure are a good choice. Although the temp
doesn't do too much either. The Oil press. is the most important to
monitor your engine's health.
An Amp gauge will tell you if the alternator is producing a charge
and if the fan belt is still on, so that may not be a bad choice.
The only problem is running a 10 gage wire from the alt. back to the
dash.
I just installed the dash console from EuroCampers and plan to
install the gauges in the console rather than anywhere else on the
Vanagon dash. I will also install the DigiTool in the same console.
This is my winter project.
Gaugeless for now - but I just got my senders from Ron.
Joel
89 Syncro Westy
Rochester NY.
--- Greg Marshall <earthboy@HOME.COM> wrote:
> I'm about to undertake the process of installing a trio of guages
> in my
> 82 air cooled van. I'm putting in an oil temp and oil pressure
> guage,
> but I can't decide on the third guage. Volts? Amps? Cylinder head
> temp? What do you folks suggest? The other possibility is using
> the
> third space for a 2 1/16 vdo clock, and replacing my big dash clock
> with
> the tach out of a newer van. How difficult a process is installing
> a
> watercooled tach in my aircooled van? Do other air cooled folks
> think
> having a tach is worthwhile?
>
> I would also be interested in seeing any pictures of peoples guage
> installations. tanks for your inpot bus people!
>
> greg,
>
> 82 vanagon westfalia, newly de-rusted, touched up, re-exhausted,
> tuned
> up and cleaned out.
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