Date:         Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:51:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Broken Odometer
In-Reply-To:  <4DACEF07.3030904@colorado.edu>
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Incidentally, if you pull your instrument cluster to send off the a vendor for repair or just to let it languish on your bench until you get around to working on it, the van will run fine without it.  At least my '87 does.  Running without guages, make sure to check all fluids periodically since you won't have warning if something goes amiss.

Stephen

--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Richard A Jones <Jones@COLORADO.EDU> wrote:

From: Richard A Jones <Jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Broken Odometer
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 10:10 PM

> For $40 Van Cafe will fix the odometer for you. =A0
> I just mailed mine off to them on Saturday:
> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_371_1330/odometer_fix.html

Another sign of how lucky we are with our vendors.  The
problem isn't a Vanagon problem--it is a VDO problem.  The
same happens on Porsche speedos.  Cost of repair is
somewhat higher....

Richard