Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:53:54 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: blinking coolant light with full coolant
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For everyone who owns a Vanagon based vehicle - ownership is like going
to college and studying for a degree. You read, read, read, and then
read some more. Since the degree is in Vanagon Science, nothing is to be
left unread just because it has no immediate application. Sooner or
later you will need every bit of the information you have read about -
and hopefully digested. At the very least you should have references
that trigger the brain as to where to go to find information for
troubleshooting. The Vanagon List is some of the best "Reference
Material" you can get in pursuing that Bachelor's in Vanagon Science. So
read, read, read.
The final exam is a practical test that will take place on a dark and
rainy night on a back road half way between Nowhere and Anywhere USA.
Guaranteed!! You want to be knowledgable enough to have the right
answers to the questions and finish the test fast, and get on down the
road. :-)
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Jim Felder wrote:
> Great information, thanks! And thanks as well to Unca Joel, Dagbear and
> Doug. And thanks for bringing up another point: since I've never had a
> coolant light problem, I've never read a coolant light post, so though
> it may be the milliionth appearance of the information, it's the first
> time I've seen it. Not that i would never read a coolant light post--if
> one appeared after two straight weeks of tire posts, I'd read it : ).
> Actually, I usually have something else--more often a plan than a
> problem, thank goodness--that occupies my interest so I like most folks
> gravitate toward my immediate or planned needs.
>
> Someone was asking the other day about setting aside information as in
> the BTDT site. Maybe you've hit the defining criteria: what's been
> asked most? There may be a way to search the archives for greatest
> number of appearances (yes, I realize that that depends on some
> disciplined way of titling posts) but it could be a start.
>
> Or, maybe just develop the practice of loading essays like yours into
> BTDT or something like it when it's something we realize we've seen or
> even written for the millionth time?
>
> Jim
>
> On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:08 PM, mark drillock wrote:
>
>> Ok, for the millionth time on the list, pull the relay "43" (or 42)
>> from relay socket number 3 of the main fuse/relay panel. If the
>> blinking problem stops when the relay is out, the fault causing the
>> blinking MUST be in the coolant level circuit. However if the blinking
>> problem continues even with the relay out the problem CAN'T BE the
>> coolant level sensor, it's wires, or the relay.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Jim Felder wrote:
>>
>>> My 90 has no cooling system issues but the blinking coolant level
>>> warning light won't go out. I've checked the connections, and they're
>>> OK. I suspect it must be the sending unit (original, though the tank
>>> isn't) but only because I can't think of anything else.
>>>
>>> What am I missing, or is it likely that the sensor is finished?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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