At 06:28 PM 2/20/2009, Jim Felder wrote: >It's the Level Control relay and I'm hoping it's what's causing my >temp gauge to go nuts on really cold mornings. Jim, if it still "goes nuts" with the controller out, then it's an internal gauge problem. It's fixable if you're up to some reasonably delicate soldering. You have to drill out the face rivets, desolder the fine leads to the heater coil, desolder and remove the circuit board from the mounting posts, then replace the large capacitor, preferably with a tantalum, observing polarity. Then put it all back.
-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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