Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:46:40 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
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lol.
the wiring diagram is accurate.
your idea will work ..
and basically ..
there is just one blu/blk wire from your oil pressure switch to T14..
the main connector on the instrument cluster.
if you want to operate a buzzer too ..
that could work.
but you're not having an oiil pressure light coming on issue, are you ?
Unless you are having that ..like say low enough OP at high temps to make
the oil light flicker at idle ......
if you are not having that problem ..
it is not likely your oil pressure light is going to come on anyway ..
unless say ...it uses or leaks oil and you're lazy about checking oil level.
One should be checking the temp guage .........really ..
about once or twice a mintue while driving down the highway, on a waterboxer
vanagon.
like part of your regular scan .....
look in the rear view mirror,
look all around out in front of you,
check speedometer..
check coolant temp and warning lights...
over and over while you drive down the highway.
if you are checking the coolant temp quite often like one should in a wbxr
vanagon ..
you'll see the oil warning light if it's on, which is farily unlikely unless
there is a real problem,
or perhaps thin oil in high summer temps.
scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
> Well, I wasn't trying to get all fancy like that. This being an 84
> model, and if the wiring diagram on 97.56 isn't lying, then just wiring
> a buzzer in parallel with the idiot lamp should give an audible alarm
> whenever the oil pressure lamp lights.
>
> There's only a single wire running from the op switch to the dash light,
> according to the diagram, so it can't be any fancier than that.
>
> Unless the wiring diagram is inaccurate, of course.
>
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 08:34 -0700, mark drillock wrote:
>
>> It is not a simple buzzer but a logic board that attaches to the cluster
>> blue foil in 86+ models. A guy like you could wire one into a van that
>> did not have it but you need to add the reverse logic high rpm second
>> pressure switch and a tach signal. Not all that practical to add on an
>> 84 but very possible. Page 90.22 shows the layout.
>>
>> The logic board has inputs for the two pressure switches, engine rpm,
>> and of course power and ground. The only outputs are the audible buzzer
>> and a signal to the oil light which blinks when pressure is sensed low.
>>
>> The logic board ignores the high pressure switch unless rpms are above
>> 2000 or so. It lives inside the speedo case but not for any functional
>> reason other than to put the alarm sound right in your face.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 08:51 -0500, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> I have a similar setup (but with 0-80 psi gauge). I definitely want
>> >> the warning signals in place. After all, the warning gets ones
>> >> attention. Methinks that is why manufacturers came up with the
>> >> idiot
>> >> lights -- for idiots like me. A lamp is harder to ignore than a
>> >> gauge
>> >> is. A buzzer is even harder to ignore (I know, some folks disable
>> >> the
>> >> buzzer because it is hard to ignore -- they are not wise). mcneely
>> >
>> >
>> > According to Bentley's, the 83-84 models don't have a buzzer for low
>> > oil
>> > pressure. I'd like to have one, and it would be pretty simple to wire
>> > one in.
>> >
>> > Not finding buzzers at Bus Depot or Van-Cafe, can someone recommend a
>> > source?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rocky J Squirrel
>> >
