Date:         Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:17:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Steven Smith <kewsps@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steven Smith <kewsps@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Catastrophic failure of coolant level sensor
In-Reply-To:  <4672DCEC.30000@verizon.net>
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Glad to hear it's a myth Mike. Couldn't imagine how it might do that.

  It appears I did solve the problem, thanks to other list discussions, I tried tightening the nut in the center of the temp Guage and it stopped blinking. Turned it a little more and it started again. So I pulled the instrument cluster and removed the center nut (ground i believe) and saw that the copper ring under the nut was broken off right where the line goes into the plastic ribbon. Since the clock doesn't work, I removed the ground wire from it and attached it to the temp guage. Seems to work.

  Turn on key, light blinks. Start engine, stops blinking. Unplug coolant sensor and after a few seconds starts blinking.

  Thanks for the help.

Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
  Steven Smith wrote:
> I also seem to remember something about the coolant mix needing to be 50%? If true, that is sophisticated!

Absolute myth!

Mike
'84 GL 7 pass
'84 GL Westy
'85 GL Westy



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