Search messages and discussions

Search preserved mailing-list messages and current email and website contributions. Current posts are searchable before weekly archival. Recovery gaps remain possible. Words are matched together; try fewer terms if needed.

Page 11+: 60 results shown for sender.

Source-balanced relevance: matches from both collections are interleaved, with source dates breaking ties. Restoration time is not the original posting date.

• Re: Anybody installed a VDO water temp gauge in a 2.1L? Dual sender available?
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:22:22 -0400
  ...in a 2.1L Yes and if there is a > Dual sender available....so as not to mess with the > temp gauge already in...
• VDO oil pressure & sender for sale
  Historical mailing list - James T Boldway
  Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:47:55 -0500
  New VDO oil pressure gauge and dual sender (for 1985). $30 for both (half price). Buyer to pay actual shipping. Email me OFF LIST...
• Re: Fuel Pressure Gauge...any with electronic senders???
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:23:14 -0500
  ...The gasoline won't eat the diaphragm in the oil pressure sender? David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia '86 Volvo 240DL wagon
• Re: Coolant temp gauge sender location - 90 Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:14:22 -0400
  ...I don't have a new one of those senders here, so will order one. This afternoon I cleaned up the end of the...
• Blinking oil pressure light
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 6 Dec 2020 10:01:18 -0800
  ...I check the sender wire, looking OK the white plastic connector is OK too. What else to check? Could the high oil pressure sender...
• Re: ** PLEASE READ ** Change the List's Reply-To address
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:01:52 -0700
  ...My mail program, Netscape Messenger, offers two choices, Reply to Sender Only, and Reply to Sender and all Recipients. With the click of a...
• Re: running a little cool?
  Historical mailing list - John P. Flaherty
  Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:11:44 -0400
  ...I've cleaned the wire, and used pliers to > tighten its grasp on the sender. I've rulled out a lot. Maybe the > sender...
• Nice little Zerex shower this afternoon...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:41:53 -0700
  ...Do that..it is the sender. So I look around in my spare pile and find one that is a Temp II sender...but...
• resolved, was: oil pressure warning system anomaly?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:23:24 -0800
  ...It may be that the L-board > logic recognizes that as a fault condition, which of course it is -- > that sender should be open...
• Radiator fan question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:26:25 -0500
  ...I am looking for instructions to determine if the fan or the sender is faulty. I also understand that later-model senders are set...
• Re: Oil & cyl temp guage install
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:26:26 -0500
  ...As for the oil temp sender, I used the much maligned dipstick sender and had no trouble wirth it . Put it in a pot...
• Re: Wonky temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sun, 3 May 2015 17:21:45 -0500
  ...If the gauge still pegs, unplug the gauge sender back at the engine. If it still pegs, unplug the panel connector and look for...
• Re: Flashing coolant LED was Re: Tweak yer heater output!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:03:34 -0500
  ...antifreeze in the coolant, or dirty pins -- the sender circuit will believe that there is no coolant and will trigger the light. It might...
• Re: The Dying 86 Vanagon - engine cuts out
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:00:35 EDT
  When you replaced the O2 sender did you get a universal one where you have to splice the wires together or did you get...
• temp sender gone wonky?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Thu, 22 May 2003 00:16:33 -0400
  ...Afterwards the van seemed to run cool, so after consulting the archives and my mechanic we replaced the temp sender. The temp gauge is...
• Re: Magnetic Tachs - bicycle to vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:06:16 -0500
  ...I think the wireless ones might be infrared, so you have to have a clear line-of-sight between the sender and the head.
• Where on the radiator is the coolant temp sender
  Historical mailing list - gary
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:05:50 -0500
  I am familiar with the relay screwed into the radiator with the 3 wires-but where is the coolant temp sender located-does it...
• more radiator discussion. anyone have LED sender unit fail?
  Historical mailing list - shawn feller
  Thu, 25 May 2006 23:32:16 -0400
  ...The coolant level sender has no affect on this no matter what I do with it and I have cleaned the contacts and tested...
• Re: dead hall sender-where to get replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Marla Stelk
  Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:11:35 -0500
  ...dead hall sender-where to get replacement? >Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:33:35 -0500 > >We sell these Hall Senders for $99. I...
• Re: fuel guage flux ('83.5)
  Historical mailing list - Beth Young
  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 06:32:48 -0800 (PST)
  ...Any ideas? Sounds like a bad sender to me. At least that was my problem when my fuel guage began acting in a similar...
• Re: How to test the Temp I Sender?
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:29:34 -0400
  ...How to test the Temp I Sender? > Does anyone know how to test the Temp I sender for a 1.9L or Syncro engine...
• Re: Another VDO Gauge question: Oil Temp Sender doesn't fit in Drain hole?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:04:22 -0400
  ...I ordered a 300 degree oil temp VDO gauge and sender from Bus Depot...my mechanic (installing it) just found out the sender won...
• Re: VDO wiring help needed!
  Historical mailing list - Doug
  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:25:04 -0400
  ...sender. > > Barrett > '88 Wolfsburg > > On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:37 AM, Doug wrote: > >> Folks, >> Am installing a VDO oil pressure gauge and sender...
• Re: Oil pressure
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Apr 95 21:23:00 EDT
  ...Trouble is the dual sender is a bugger to install, necessitating some snippage of the tin and a deft hand in threading the sender...
• Re: Oil Light never glows
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:18:38 -0400
  Don't start with the least likely part...check the wire and sender between the pushrod tubes on the left side of the engine...
• Re: Fwd: fuel sender: replace with tank?
  Historical mailing list - Curt Newsome
  Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:31:39 -0700
  ...I didn't > understand the logic of > going to the trouble of replacing the tank and not > the sender. I vote yes to > complete...
• Re: Temp. Sender Replacement
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:57:01 -0400
  ...ZUMBRENNEN JOSEPH CORY) writes: > >Is it possible to replace the temperature sender that is in the water >pump without draining the coolant? Thanks. > >Cory...
• Size of oil pressure sender?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 3 May 1997 16:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I'm engaging in some wishful thinking and I'd like to tighten down the oil pressure sender in my '81. Trouble is, it...
• Re: temp sensor Q
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:06:03 -0600
  ...EVEN TURN ENGINE OVER, ENGINE COLD FROM LONG OVERNIGHT Rolf, Check for a shorted temp sender or the lead to the temp sender. Larry
• Hall Sender cost? 87 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Donna Stewart
  Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:37:36 -0800
  ...One suggestion is that it could be the hall sender - what is the cost and do I have to buy at the dealer? I...
• Re: coolant level control unit location
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:10:17 -0700
  ...Ground >>for the sender is the sender screwed into the engine. > > Yes, I mean the sender wiring shorting to ground between the sender and...
• Re: installing oil pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:08:24 -0700
  ...installing oil pressure gauge > The other sender is a better location in my opinion anyway. Easier to get > at. I have never used the...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Kimmons
  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:03:56 -0500
  ...grounds between the > connector and the body of the sender. > cleaned out the sender, didn't see anything in it and didn't see...
• Re: Gauge Mounting Options
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:27:37 -0400
  ...Pressure senders on automotive-type gauges are normally *in essence* a mechanical gauge connected to a fuel tank sender and are the size of...
• Re: Broken Hall Sender
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:24:54 -0500
  ...Has anyone any ideas as to how to fix this? I don't want > > to buy a new distributor or replace the Hall Sender...
• Re: temp gauge not working right...
  Historical mailing list - levi hawkins
  Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:42:30 +0000
  ...If grounding the sender wire *at the sender* makes the needle shoot for the sky (and the gauge start smelling hot if you leave...
• Re: FREE ------------------Rare Munchkin Ice Cube Tray
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:39:19 EST
  In a message dated 11/12/02 9:18:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, wilden1@JUNO.COM writes: << Buy these gages with the senders...
• 87 syncro water temperature sender
  Historical mailing list - Hans Achter
  Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:09:59 -0400
  ...I always thought that there was a temperature sender and the Temp Sensor II was a separate temperature sensor for the fuel injection. Does...
• Re: infos on installing an oil temp sender
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:22:20 -0500
  Yanik, Instead of the oil drain I used the oil intake to mount the oil temp sender: http://neksiwel.20m.com/images/engine2.jpg...
• Re: Broken Oil Pressure gauge/sender?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:57:35 -0700
  ...signal from sender. and ground. check each of those. if the wire from the sender is grounded anywhere .. that will make the gauge to...
• Re: VDO Oil Pressure Extension Adaptor
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:52:34 -0600
  ...1 Each 1/8" brass T for the idiot light sender and the VDO sender. 1 Each support and grounding bracket cut from 1...
• Fwd: RE: VDO Oil Pressure sender specs
  Historical mailing list - Brian Cochran
  Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:29:10 -0800
  ...Oil Pressure sender specs > >I have a 84 VW vanagon with an oil pressure gauge (after-market) and dual > >sending unit. The sender has...
• Re: Fuel Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:19:47 -0700
  Sounds like the sender to me. Gas gauges themselves rarely go bad in my experience. -- Jim Thompson 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria" 84 Westfalia...
• Re: Oil Press. Sender location(T4)
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:40:45 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The threads on the sender are the same as the threads on > the stock oil pressure switch. The problem is that the sender is...
• temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Randy Charrette
  Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:28:48 -0500
  ...Actally it read nothing 1 day so I replaced the sender, then it read high (3/4 or higher). Tried 2 new senders. Still...
• Re: electrical problem--apparently solved
  Historical mailing list - Trooz
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:25 -0800
  It seems that the list members who quickly guessed my problem to be the Hall sender were correct. After swapping out parts including an...
• Re: [subaruvanagon] Re: Double Entries
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:15:32 -0700
  ...Andrew, Mea Culpa! With Netscape, when I reply to a message, I have a choice of "Reply to sender" or "Reply to sender and...
• Re: Where to buy 0.25 bar oil pressure sender?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:02:48 -0400
  ...Where to buy 0.25 bar oil pressure sender? I've got the "oil light flicker at idle" problem and would like to try...
• Re: Fuel sender inacurate (theory)
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:13:28 EDT
  ...fell in the tank only to be hung up on the senders wire arm, thus not allowing the float to rise to the surface...
• Re: Best placement for outside air temperature sender?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:10:28 -0500
  ...This is where I mounted the probe for the temp sender on my clock/temp gauge. It's out of a direct blast of...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 6 Sep 2017 22:37:18 -0600
  ...Pics etc here > > https://shufti.blog/2012/07/05/vanagon-oil-pressure-sender-relocation/ > > Jeeze, been 5 years now, the set up works fine...
• Engine turns - Fails to start - Trouble Shooting
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:36:48 -0500
  ...But that could be the coil, the hall sender or the ECU. The Hall sender sends a timing signal to the ECU that tells...
• Re: VDO senders and oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Tue, 2 Dec 1997 02:35:16 -0600
  ...I think your blinking red light troubles are related to using the dual sender as opposed to the original. My single sender VDO unit...
• Re: Oil Pressure Light Flickering
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:22:23 -0600
  Steven, one thing you might want to check is that the oil sender is the correct one. Sometimes the wrong sender is installed. If...
• Re: Hall Sensor Test 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Marla Stelk
  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:36:00 -0400
  ...My hall sender is loose where it goes into the distributor, but I believe the wires are still in good shape. But I've...
• Hall Sender checking--need help!!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Hall
  Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:55:32 -0600
  ...I am about to do the Hall sender checks this evening and need adivce. Section 28.43 of the Bentley covers the Hall sender...
• Re: Oil Temp Sender and Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:55:47 -0400
  ...First question - if this is your set up, have you had >> to ground the sender since the bottom of the block is aluminum? When...
• Re: Where on the radiator is the coolant temp sender
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:12:18 -0500
  ...Where on the radiator is the coolant temp sender I am familiar with the relay screwed into the radiator with the 3 wires-but...
• Re: Heater pipe and a question on mods to it
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:51:25 -0500
  ...I raise the question simply to make sure the VDO sender is grounded properly so the gauge will read. The Haltech sender has a...
• 87 Westy Coolant Temp Puzzle
  Historical mailing list - John W. Parkins
  Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:14:01 -0400
  My gauge temperature sender went bad (open circuited), and temperature always read cold. Replaced the sender. Now at normal idle, the gauge reads past...