The Bus Depot wrote: >My '89 Vanagon is experiencing an intermittant coolant gauge failure... > Another source of a bad ground (I think) can be the bolts securing the thermostat housing. I believe these bolts are the path to ground that the sending unit relies on... if they are somewhat corroded they can increase resistance and give a false low temp. Never had an intermittent failure from this but when it's a failing ground many strange things can happen. Geo H
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