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Date:         Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:16:22 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Intermittent low gauges
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <CAHTkEu+S3kHk8=C+F-9whqBNSm0jyq6XruRPYud2GoZACBFbBg@mail.gmail.com>
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I had the same problem. Replacing the foil and switching the voltage regulator (I think that's what it was?) solved the problem.

Jeff 85westfalia

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> On Aug 10, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > 84 chassis, Digifant inline in the diesel style.. > I have what I'm guessing is the stock instrument-pod in my inline VW > van...no tach and no buzzers.... It just began showing lower than normal,

> and incorrect readings, twice yesterday on startup, both the fuel gauge > and the coolant temperature gauge. Then they are right again.... Dunno if

> they creep back up, or correct themselves after the next start up.... can't > safely watch their behavior long enough to see, but one episode they stayed > low for a 50 mile trip... The fuel should have read full, but after just

> 35mi it was below the odd VW idea of 3/4 tank...and the temperature reading > was just off dead cold when it normally reads just below the top of that > two line zone they put at the left end...When loaded and flogging it, the > temp gauge normally gets up to the led in the center. In cruise mode, this > van indicates about halfway between the led and that lower, what must be > the Teutonic warm-up zone... > So both those gauges were reading too low for what was really there, in > reality.... I double check the temp always with my oil temp and the > alternator lite... > My low coolant light has never worked...and before get "scolded" for > that.... I don't care about that... > Any how, is there a common ground, or perhaps an intermittent resistor > that may be sometimes causing those two gauges to give lower than normal > readings, and then be right again, sometimes? Thanks if anyone has any > ideas..


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