I have oil temp and a volt meter on my 88 Syncro. The oil temp and a volt meter will also go in my 84 Westie this winter when it is in "dry dock". I have an oil pressure gauge in my 80 Caddy and 85 Cabriolet. Both are good, but your Vanagon already has a decent oil pressure warning system. If it goes below 0.3BAR the oil pressure light and buzzer will go on... works for me. The oil temp gauge is a good indicator on how hard you are working your engine, but if you were really interested in that I would get a vacuum gauge as the coolant temp gauge also gives you a good indication of how hard you are working the engine. If you really want to be clever, you could install a toggle switch and use the existing temp gauge to measure both oil and water temps! At 12:54 AM 15/10/1999 -0400, Madsen wrote: > I'm conteplating which VDO gauge I should get first. Oil pressure or >oil temperature gauge. Does anyone have an opinion which is most >important? Can only afford 1 right now. Be nice to know whats going on way >back there in the engine compartment. Ken Madsen Whitby, ON 87GL -- David Marshall - - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 84 VW Westie, 85 VW Cabriolet -- -- 87 Audi 5000 Quattro, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab -- -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) -- |
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