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• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 5 Sep 2017 03:03:51 -0400
  IF LP sender grounded THEN blinking light. RPM doesn't matter. IF HP sender not grounded AND RPM > 2000 THEN blinking light and buzzer...
• Re: coolant temp sender connection and another broken coolant hose
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:25:45 -0400
  ...to tell me something I think. > > http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/vanagon-coolant-temp-sender-wire-repair-and-another-broken-hose/ > > alistair
• New distributor missing hall sender?
  Historical mailing list - Todd
  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:55:04 -0700
  ...Popped the cap, rotor, dust cap off and...am I wrong...is the hall sender missing??! I assume a 'new' rebuilt distributor would come...
• Re: Engine stumbling, hesitations... again
  Historical mailing list - DEREKWH125
  Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:36:08 EST
  After having a similar problem and switching in a rebuilt ECU with no change I narrowed it down to the Hall sender. Unfortunately, though...
• Re: Hall Senders
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:08:45 -0800
  ...sender issue shortly - and after someone >> mentioned putting a Volvo hall sender in their WBX - it made me wonder >> how many hall senders - and...
• Re: Fuel leaking from Sender Unit on Replacement Fuel Tank
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:38:14 -0400
  Check that the sender itself has not cracked. Sometimes they get a hairline crack in them from force fitting them. It will be hard...
• Re: syncro fuel gauge sender ground
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:26:26 -0700
  ...The Syncro sub-harness also has the wires for the 3 locker switches, in addition to the fuel gauge sender wires. Mark Alistair Bell...
• Re: Fuel gauge problem
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:08:17 -0400
  Just be very careful as you are unplugging the plug on the tank sender. When they fail it is usually because the plastic part...
• Re: oil temp gauge
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:53:10 -0700
  At 7:22 PM 6/21/96, James Cohen wrote: >Gene Berg and Bill Fischer warn against the sump sender. It gives a false...
• Connecting Oil Pressure Gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:31:20 -0000
  ...Ken Wilfey suggested using a piece of pipe and a T to connect the existing sender, plugging the other end of the T, which...
• Re: Where can this wire be found?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 27 May 2011 17:10:21 -0700
  ...Doesn't >> >the 1.9 have a 0.3 to 0.5 bar switch? It's the 2.1 that has two >> >senders, including...
• Re: Losing power...update
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:17:21 EDT
  ...A queefed out Hall sender can cause the van to just die and not restart, a condition you can only hope for. A failing...
• Oil Temp Sender??
  Historical mailing list - Harmon Seaver
  Sun, 5 Jul 1998 15:08:33 -0500
  I bought a VDO oil temp guage, but can't figure out where to mount the sender. Supposedly it goes in the oil drain...
• Re: Take II-'91 Bucking and Digitool Readings-solution?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:47:51 -0500
  If the injector lights are going off you may have a Hall sender problem. No RPM signal, no injection. Try jiggling the Hall sender...
• Re: '86 2.1 Oil Pressure light coming on
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:44:09 EDT
  ...since it wasnt a oil pressure problem, and just a faulty sender - i grounded it out so it shut off the buzzer for a...
• Re: I think I have given up on my cooling system...
  Historical mailing list - John Lane
  Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:29:07 -0700
  ...Especially when the VDO peeps couldn't even confirm which sender the van has it in! They sent me tables with 10 different sender...
• Re: Hall Sender Connector "Loose"
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:02:44 +0000
  ...Besides getting a new distributor or just the part with the hall sender (see below), epoxying and electrical tape seems to have worked for...
• Re: Low Oil Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:56:48 -0400
  ...http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/oil_pressure_sender.htm And be sure you have the right .25BAR (update from VW) between the cylinder and...
• Re: Westy water tank sender
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:36:36 -0600
  A few years ago there were long posts on how to rejuvenate the float style senders. Search the archives for the last 10 years...
• Fuel Gauge
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hemrick
  Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:18:45 -0400
  All, So, if the gas gauge needle is hanging straight down (I mean STRAIGHT down), is that typically the sender or the gauge that...
• Re: hall sender & cold start & tempII
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:48:29 -0700
  ...your van (or syncro vans either, they take the earlier style > sender too Ken, Not sure if they are VDO or what... but Bus...
• new head, new temp sender?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Mon, 19 May 2003 00:04:45 -0400
  ...Took it back to the shop, where they told me the temp sender was toast. No problems before. Coincidence? Jeff 85 Westfalia Winnipeg ______________________________________________________________________ Post...
• Re: adding resister to center 1.9 coolant temp gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:26:09 -0700
  Wow -- I was way wrong! The sender is a temperature-dependent resistor? Shucks. I need to keep my mouth shut more often than I...
• Re: Tiico-After market water temp gauge/oil temp gauge question.......
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:32:23 -0400
  ...It's got a threaded boss for the stock temp sender. Is your Tiico set up the same way? If so, go to a...
• Re: Digifant Hall Sender Question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:08:53 -0700
  On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Sam Bateman wrote: > I have broken the plastic connector on the Hall Sender unit on my '87 Vanagon > (don...
• Re: Won't run
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:29:21 -0500
  ...The thermo time switch sounds like one possibility, or a bad head temp sender (which could be leaning the mixture out too much once...
• Re: Oil Pressure Buzzer? After Tach Wiring.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Knight
  Mon, 16 May 2005 14:14:12 -0500
  ...Could i swap the circuit board? The 2.1L "2" switch setup, is this 2 senders? Can I replace my sender with the 2...
• Ferreting out the Kooky sender
  Historical mailing list - Pensioner
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:43:14 -0800
  ...You can add the domain to your junk mail senders list. Opening the message can cause problems if there is executable code in it...
• Re: Oil Relief Plug
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:51:47 -0700
  ...You could give the senders a ground wire. > Have the sender pass through a ring terminal and ground the wire somewhere > handy. But I...
• Oil pressure problems again...
  Historical mailing list - d t
  Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:46:06 MDT
  ...I want to monitor these senders so that if I get the warning I'll know who's the culprit (the senders, the instrument...
• Re: H2O tank senders solved!
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:51:24 EDT
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Thanks to Steve Sittser who donated a bum sender to the cause, I can now > tell you all about how...
• Re: Heat Related Ignition Failure
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:55:27 -0500
  ...Now this - symptoms that are the same as the old broken sender. I considered that the hall sender might be failing - but I wasn...
• Re: 87 Syncro - Vanagon-type Syndrome and Questions
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:49:19 -0700
  ...If the tach drops to zero when the cutout occurs, suspect the Hall sender in the distributor. The sender plastic can crack where the...
• Re: VDO Oil Pressure Extension Adaptor
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:32:47 -0800
  Why not use an electrical sender and gauge? David Marshall Fast Forward Automotive Inc. 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3 http...
• Hall sender unit
  Historical mailing list - Lee Spear
  Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:15:58 EST
  ...It starst if i hold tha hall sender in place. This is the first time i looked at it. the clips that hold it...
• Re: Need a Distributor or Hall sender near San Antonio TX
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:57 -0700
  ...Need a Distributor or Hall sender near San Antonio TX > Anybody got? Thanks. > Michael in San Antonio > 91GL AT 'Gringo' > 73 Beetle
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Ronald P. McDonald
  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 17:52:19 -0700
  ...01BCAE5A.F8081460 ========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> From: Subject: SET VANAGON DIGEST ------=_NextPart_000_01BCAE5A.F8081460 ========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List...
• Re: what size is the Oil Pressure Sender?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:53:22 -0800
  On 7 Nov 2001 at 20:01, Shawn Wright wrote: > 24mm - o/p sender > 28mm DEEP - diesel injectors (1 1/16" - identical size) Sorry...
• Re: Broken Oil Pressure gauge/sender?
  Historical mailing list - Ry
  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:37:42 -0500
  ...Broken Oil Pressure gauge/sender? > > > > I was wiring up my new VDO volt gauge and accidentally shorted the (+) >> feed >> to my oil pressure gauge...
• Re: Hall Sender
  Historical mailing list - T Berk
  Mon, 10 May 2004 15:10:50 -0700
  ...From all the replies I got, I suspect the Hall > sender. I have noticed that the small plastic connector is loose. Is it > possible...
• Re: Oil Temp Sender and Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:36:07 -0700
  ...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: oil temp sensors
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:25:08 -0800
  ...I'm no expert, but have gone round and round on head temp sender locations for the Type IV engine. The VW sending unit...
• Hall Sender connector socket - replace part/whole?
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0700
  Hi guys, I noticed that my hall effect sender on the distributor ('89 2.1 WBX) has a cracked connector socket. Since the whole...
• Re: How to test the Temp I Sender?
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:39:44 -0400
  ...if you ground the lead to the sender the gauge should go all the way to hot. jonathan On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Ed...
• Re: Bluestar project progress-another syncro anomaly
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Fri, 3 May 2013 20:47:40 -0400
  ...As such, it has a METAL thermostat housing and a temp gauge sender that just has one wire (fits like a nail head on...
• Re: Westy water tank sender
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:54:55 -0700
  ...I'll need to look at my tank to see if I've got the float kind of sender or the contacts on the...
• Fuel gauge sender ground location
  Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
  Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:52:39 -0800
  ...Both leads to the Sender exit the loom at this point. Two wires run directly to the Sender, the ground wire loops into and...
• Re: adding resister to center 1.9 coolant temp gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:31:53 -0700
  I've seen minor differences from one gauge temp sender to another, like having several good used ones to play with .....like a needle...
• 82 Diesel coolant temp sender location
  Historical mailing list - Pete Geisen
  Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:12:38 -0400
  ...Looking through the Bentley, I've been trying to identify the sender on the engine. I put up a photo : http://picasaweb.google.com...
• Temp Warning Light Mystery
  Historical mailing list - Stu Schwartz
  Mon, 21 Sep 1998 05:40:48 -0500
  ...The coolant short >circuits the sender and makes the light go hay wire. Happened on my parents >Jetta and replacing the sender solved the...
• Re: water tank level sensor
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Thu, 13 May 1999 16:31:08 -0700
  ...It says to "-connect other jumper wire to white, yellow, and green wire of sender unit one after another"... Well, my sender only has...
• Re: Need a used temp sender plug
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 17 May 2007 16:40:34 -0400
  ...Need a used temp sender plug >Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:19:32 -0400 > > > > > > > >Hi Volkees, > >Anyone have a used temp sender plug...
• Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:49:33 -0700
  the electric gauge and sender isn't a problem. I get a 0-100 psi VDO gauge .. cockpit series I think, from e-gagues...
• Re: Dash Cluster Upgrade
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:31:55 -0700
  ...I guess it is the dual-sender >warning system being confused by the single sender in the 84 model. >Can anyone give me a...
• Re: VDO Coolant Temp Gauge Sender...where to put???
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:52:17 -0700
  ...I suppose you could also get a short length of metal pipe and install the sender in that, and just splice that with one...
• Toyota Woes
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:01:17 -0500
  ...It was a bad sender -- as usual the diaphragm was leaking oil into the upper part of the sender. Cost $3 at the FLAPS...
• Re: Another VDO Gauge question: Oil Temp Sender doesn't fit in Drain hole?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:22:17 -0400
  ...Oil Temp Sender doesn't fit in Drain hole? Like I said...I live in Hooterville...my mechanic charges less than that...and owes...
• Re: New owner with a question or three.
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:18:38 -0400
  ...The first place I'd suspect is the connection at the sender. The sender is in the heater hose connection at the front (FIF...
• Gauges and gadgets for the 1.9l TD conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:44:17 -0400
  ...1/ Boost pressure gauge (Do these have a seprate sender, or do I have to pull a hose to the dash?) 2/ Pyrometer sender...
• Anybody installed a VDO water temp gauge in a 2.1L? Dual sender available?
  Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
  Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:06:34 -0700
  ...Gauge in a 2.1L and if there is a Dual sender available....so as not to mess with the temp gauge already in...