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• Re: Where is Coolant Temperature Sender?
  Historical mailing list - Cory Zumbrennen
  Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:36:53 -0600
  ...I've checked my Bentley but > can't find where on our '86 Syncro Westfalia the sender unit is located. > > Would someone please help...
• Re: VDO Oil Pressure Extension Adaptor
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:34:14 -0500
  On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Laurence Smith wrote: > I purchased the VDO oil pressure sender extension hose from Bus-Boys > (about US$27). Only...
• Re: Surging between 1700 and 3000 rpm
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:54:13 -0400
  It can be any following items: -AFM -Fuel regulator, pump, tank -Temp sender (the blue one mostly) -Distributor (yea, i'm having a lot...
• Re: Fuel gauge sender ground location
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Fri, 6 Mar 2009 22:14:11 EST
  ...Both leads to the Sender exit the loom at this point. > Two wires run directly to the Sender, the ground wire loops into and...
• I wish to add my 2-cent on Internet communication. (In reply to the Bus Depot problem post)
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:15:25 -0400
  I sent an inquiry e-mail about VDO gauge and sender for a 2.1L last week to 4 differents parts supplier --Bow Wow...
• Re: Gas Gauge on 78 bus
  Historical mailing list - Steve Walker
  Fri, 20 Jan 95 12:51:26 EST
  ...If you cut a hole in the body to get to the sender, it will be cut up junker someday. NEVER CUT A HOLE...
• Re: Let's Talk Oil....
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 7 Oct 2000 02:31:39 -0400
  ...Oil sender switches act weird when the diaphragm begins to leak. d David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy...
• Re: Gas Mileage and Fuel Pressure Regulator
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 11 May 2001 14:17:44 -0400
  At 02:03 PM 5/11/2001, Max Wellhouse wrote: >Gee, I thought the only thing the Temp I sender did was send a...
• Re: Rich mixture/excessive fuel use
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:47:12 -0400
  ...9 motor is >caused by the temp-2 sender which is the two-wire sender >located next to the water pump. Most often, the...
• Re: Hall Control Unit and stalling
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:26:42 -0500
  One incredibly delicate part of this setup is the wires that go from the sender through the distributor wall and into the connector. They...
• Re: more oil temp
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:12:49 -0400
  ...Real easy instaliation 1.disconnect the wire from the existing oil pressure sender (unplug the thing) 2. un-screw the sender from th engine...
• Wiring VDO oil preasure gauge.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:54:38 -0500
  I've got a VDO oil preasure gauge with the standard big fat sender. On the sender terminals; one is marked G the other...
• Re: Mystery Electrical Trouble
  Historical mailing list - Steven Dodson
  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:58:32 -0400
  ...tests performed per VW factory manual, page 28.39 for coil test, page 28.43 for hall sender test and page 28.44 for...
• Re: Fuel sending unit question.
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:00:01 -0400
  ...You need to dress those edges where the sender engages so that it will no longer bite into the sender when you install it...
• Re: replacing fuel tank
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:12:01 -0700
  ...Be careful installing the sender--the tabs on the tank "twist lock" need to be raised a bit on the leading corners so the...
• Re: temperature guage on 87 westy
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:35:30 -0400
  ...Find sender and ground it *briefly* -- needle should head for the sky and blinker should blink. Don't ground for more than long enough...
• Re: Fuel Sender Question
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:09:39 -0800
  On 29 Mar 2005 at 20:02, Joseph Heil <jose5353@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > I've read most posted archives on the fuel sender unit...
• FW: Gas leaking after filling to the top...84 2wd..
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:15:25 -0700
  I put in the new tank with a new sender as well, and had to tweak the tabs on the tank opening before I...
• Re: 91 instrument cluster, oil pressure led
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:43:43 -0400
  Most oil pressure senders are a normally-closed switch that puts the connector terminal to earth ground in the lack of rated pressure. When...
• Re: Oil Pressure Guage, Kohl-Weiss, TDC sender
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 1 Sep 94 16:59:39 PDT
  John Huguenard writes: > > I am going to keep the old idiot light sender, as recommended. Good. Vdo makes a sender that has two terminals...
• Re: syncro fuel tanks and snow tyres
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Zeidler
  Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:33:37 +0300
  ...I initially figured on installing >a normal vanagon sender and running the input to a gauge >on the dash. Being a simple person at...
• Re: '85 Ignition Control Unit
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:19:03 -0700
  ...The Hall sender is inside the distributor. I know the _sender_ is in the distributor, but I thought this thing was something to do...
• dumb mechanic cant remember fuel sender orientation
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:57:31 -0500
  ...my dumb mechanic (me) can't remember the orientation of the fuel sender when it is installed, and the Bentley photo is such poor...
• Oil temp senders for diesel?
  Historical mailing list - Tobin Copley
  Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:50:10 -0800
  Is there a sump-type oil temp sender available for the 1.6L diesel vanagon motor that would be compatible with the usual VDO...
• Re: Short in my gas gauge
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:14:29 -0700
  ...You can check it by testing continuity from fuel sender wire to ground at instrument cluster connector. If it's open circuit sender is...
• hall sender vs points
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:48:40 -0500
  I've never had a van before that had a hall sender, but now I do...my '80 Westy (now tentatively named "CreamPuff.") Anyway...
• Re: Temperature Gauge reads too high
  Historical mailing list - The Westy man
  Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:49:08 -0700
  ...Temperature Gauge > IMHO, gauges rarely fail unless they've gotten wet or severely > over-driven. > > I think most likely you have a bad sender...
• Re: temp gauge shenanagins
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:32:32 -0500
  ...short to ground in the temp sender wiring. More common reason: you have an old-style coolant-level controller as found in roughly pre...
• Re: Riviera Water Systems/Pre-Drilled Sump Plates
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:43:24 CDT
  ...it's $45, part number 039-919-268, but that INCLUDES the plate, a new gasket, and the VDO pressure sender for the VDO...
• Re: install water tank level sensor
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:43:08 -0400
  This might be a good time to announce that we now have the earlier style water tank level sender - the one that mounts to...
• Re: another oil temp. gauge question
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 May 1996 04:03:36 -0400
  Yo Sean - Yeah, this is the sender for that secondary sump plate I described. I'll match the price of RMMW and give the...
• Re: Engine cleaning
  Historical mailing list - John Grazul
  Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:11:38 -0500
  ...Now, in retrospect, I try to keep a little water proof stuff {snoseal, vasoline etc} on all the senders and use my compressor to...
• Re: Re: 5 cyl. Audi, sender on flywheel doesn�t m atter
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:57:30 +0200
  > All > the Audi Motronic engines have their crank position sender on the flywheel. > The SA bellhousing doesn't have this provision. That�s right...
• Syncro fuel sender ...
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:26:55 -0700
  After fighting the rusty nuts, I took out the sender unit from the Syncro. The little plastic connector piece broke off, otherwise the whole...
• Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Oil temp gauges, choices? Using water temp sender + gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:02:44 -0700
  ...Combine this gauge error with sender error and readings can easily be 30F off as I experienced when comparing gauge+sender readings to lab...
• cold start again.
  Historical mailing list - Carl Hansen
  Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:08:46 -0500
  ...Diagnosis so far, no +12 volts to the Hall Sender. Dave is worried that his brain box has gone, I'm hoping for some...
• Re: Connecting Oil Pressure Gauge?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:44:09 -0700
  My advice is to buy the VDO hose and dual sender. If you want buy the gauge later just hook up the idiot light...
• Re: wiring for gauges
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:18:57 -0400
  ...These are VERY close to the metric sender. It will probably screw in, once. Damage to the block's threads may occur. I had...
• Re: dumb mechanic cant remember fuel sender orientation
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:45:04 -0500
  ...dumb mechanic cant remember fuel sender orientation My Bentley shows the float pointing strait ahead, in the direction of the driver. And don't...
• Re: Arguments against using VDO oil gauges only?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:58:41 -0600
  ...I think I'd rather just interpret > actual numbers, than to be unsure whether I've got bad wires, bad senders, > or bad oil...
• Re: Cheap mechanics
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:58:05 -0700
  In a Syncro, that fuel tank sender ground point is back in the engine compartment, below the ignition coil, on a bolt with some...
• Re: What's a Hall sender do?
  Historical mailing list - Jason Weisberger
  Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:36:54 -0700
  ...Hall "effect" sensor is likely a better name than "Hall Sender" On Apr 8, 2013, at 6:58 AM, john schaper <tahljohn@GMX.COM...
• Fuel Sender gasket
  Historical mailing list - rob wilke
  Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:11:24 -0700
  ...I have successfully removed the fuel sender etc. and noticed two small indentations opposite each other on the inside surface of the opening. The...
• RE: Advice for 85 Westy Synchro
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:09:33 -0400
  ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB77AD.820A9600 ========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> From: Subject: James writes: >I'll buy it! >Where is it? I...
• Re: Power Steering Sender
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:16:18 -0400
  On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, KENWILFY wrote: > I just noticed what looks like a leak from the sender on the back of my power...
• Re: fuel pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:33:28 -0700
  ...Any suggestions for which sending unit might work? > Would an oil pressure sender work? Pressure is pressure, right? > John, Yup, pressure is pressure. Try...
• ground @ water pump housing
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:36:35 -0400
  ...How is ground supplied to the water pump housing? I've found that the resistance of the sender is correct, and the gauge is...
• fuel sender: replace with tank?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:32 -0400
  ...While I'm in there, does it make sense to replace the fuel sender? My gas gauge now functions like my parents' old bus...
• Re: oil pressure: where?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:53:06 -0500
  ...You'll need to remove both the old sender and the adapter sleeve before fitting the temp sender in its place. And, if you...
• Re: New distributor missing hall sender?
  Historical mailing list - Todd
  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:28:49 -0700
  ...Hmmm, maybe the hall sender is just a different form factor than the one I removed? The former was using all the screw holes...
• Re: Westy water tank sender
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:55:06 -0500
  ...It wasn't like that before >>> winter so I'm wondering if the freezing damaged the sender. >>> >>> Anyone have any wisdom to shine on...
• Re: Rough Running 1.9L
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:50:35 -0400
  ...While problem is happening, measure O2 sensor voltage and also measure voltage across T II sender (two-terminal sender at thermostat housing left-rear...
• Re: Broken Hall Sender
  Historical mailing list - FRANK CONDELLI
  Wed, 9 Jun 2021 05:54:18 -0400
  John, we have brand new Hall Senders from JP Group for $29.95 CAD: <https://www.frankcondelli.com/staging1/store/index.php?route=product...
• Re: Wasserboxer Coolant Temp Guage Troubleshooting
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Wed, 26 May 1999 11:48:58 -0400
  ...The gauge sender is located on the thermostat housing, the side toward the front of the vehicle. The electrical connction to the sender had...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:04:41 -0600
  depending on the year and engine in yours vw uses two senders on later engines. one on top on the head and one down...
• Water temp gauge sender install question.
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:17:01 -0500
  ...The senders come in various thread sizes...........VDO suggests as near the thermostat as possible, but I do not see any place to put...
• Re: Westfalia Water Tank Level Indicator Issues
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 3 Sep 2018 21:01:33 -0400
  Argghhhhh.....left out the one megohm feeding the sender which becomes part of its network. So B+-----1MΩ------sender wire+top bolt---/\/\/\/(black box...
• Fuel Gauge sender Ground Connection (Syncro)
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:18:58 -0400
  Trying to locate the ground connection for the fuel gauge sender on my 90 Syncro DoubleCab Truck. Gauge is not working, so I want...
• Re: Oil temp gauges, choices? Using water temp sender + gauge?
  Historical mailing list - turbowesty
  Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:53:44 -0400
  ...oil > temp gauges made by VDO, and the senders they're talking about are > specific senders for specific versions of the VW oil temp...
• Water sender appeal
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 14 May 1999 16:50:24 -0400
  ...1) what are the resistance readings on your float sender when unplugged (middle and bottom -- top should be very low resistance). 2) what is...