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Date:         Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:35:56 -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
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <1303220029.1896.61.camel@TheJackUbuntuNetbook>
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Yeah, I thought the same thing but while the cluster was out I needed to move the van and figured there was nothing to lose by trying, and...well, looky there.    Stephen

--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Broken Odometer To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 9:33 AM

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 03:51 -0700, Stephen Grisanti wrote:

> 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.

That  . . . that sounds really weird. But it makes sense, I guess. The van doesn't "know" if the cluster is present, the cluster only displays things that are going on with the van. I reckon a GPS would stand in quite nicely for the missing speedo. -- Rocky J Squirrel


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