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• Re: removal of coolant level sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:01:26 -0700
  ...In every instance I've expereiced the coolant around the coolant level >sensor, the sensor itself had a crack in it. Give it a...
• Re: Auto-tranny fluid level
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 3 Oct 2021 22:13:37 +0000
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• Re: Aux. Battery: Two Group 1 6 Volt "Commercial" Batteries?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:55:41 -0500
  ...I'd recommend an accurate digital voltmeter to keep an eye on charge levels.
• Re: sticker alignment problems
  Historical mailing list - CHRIS STANN
  Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:58:42 -0500
  ...Monofilament? Dog Poop? Laser level to 1 micron? OH, I LOVE THIS LIST!
• Re: Re temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:38:52 -0800
  Yes the proper term is Coolant Level Sensor, does nothing to sense temperature at all. 251 919 372 Easily available from most of the...
• Re: camper water level indicator
  Historical mailing list - Rick Cooper
  Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:00:57 -0700
  ...The water level for the > > potable water tank in my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon Campmobile reports the > > water level at the intermediate yellow light, no...
• Re: No lights from water tank level
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:22:25 -0400
  ...an 86 Westfalia, no light is showing from the water > tank level sensor. The sensor was changed, no lights. Anyone has a clue on...
• Re: Clicking valves, my observations
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:00:01 -0500
  ...the oil level when parked has anything to do with the lifers loosing there prime and clicking the low oil level may however contribute...
• Clutch Slave Cylinder Bleed Cures Shifting Woes
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:51:34 -0500
  ...The reservoir level was not low, but I suspect it could have been at one time. The PO had the brakes serviced recently before...
• Re: flashing coolant light wzup?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:53:03 -0500
  There is very little that can go wrong with the coolant level sensor. It is simply a pair of metal prongs that project into...
• Re: ATF level
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:47:58 EST
  ...Does anyone know how much fluid it takes to raise the level from the bottom > mark to the top? I need to add fluid...
• Re: My Vanagon's blinking coolant light problem vs other peoples'---it all blends together
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:33:48 -0800
  ...On my I4 swap, with a brand new coolant level warning module installed, the first coolant gauge I installed had an intermittent lingering blinking...
• Re: Water level/temp warning flasher
  Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:37:37 -0500
  ...Water level/temp warning flasher > There is a control module (labelled 43) up under the dash forward of the > fuse panel. Hard to get...
• Re: Replacing coolant level sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:25:10 -0700
  ...Replacing coolant level sensor? > > At least 12 months is better than 12 hours! > > Did you pick up a Bentley Book by any chance? At...
• Re: Vanagon Electrical Puzzle 2
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:36:10 +0200
  Both, low level and temp sensor, are somehow linked via relay3. Low level is only connected to relay 3, still can trigger the LED...
• Re: Is this guy on the level? Vanagon AC
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:24:46 -0500
  ...I have always found his descriptions to be accurate, his prices to be fair, his shipping to be prompt, and his service level great...
• Re: Anyone have a copy of the Ultimate Trip Checklist?
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:38:28 -0400
  ...Inspect master & slave cylinders and or cables, adjustment, leaks, fluid level & condition. Note:________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____Steering: Inspect (power steering) fluid level, belt, leaks, line condition, rack...
• Re: Checking differential and manual transmission oil levels.
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:39:53 -0800
  ...Remove the plug and the fluid level should be at the bottom of the fill hole or no more than 1/2" below it...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 May 1997 14:52:55 -0700 (PDT)
  ...It seems that with the oil level at the top of the dipstick range, the oil temperature directly related to engine speed once highway...
• Re: A trick - Subiegon oil dip stick
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 3 Sep 2023 17:53:24 -0500
  ...You definitely > want to add oil when the oil is at the low level mark. Trying to check > oil and get that tube back...
• Re: Oil
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:55:56 -0400
  For starters, what level are you trying to keep the oil at? If you are shooting for the top mark, you are really overfilling...
• Re: lifting a 1990 Carat
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:30:35 -0400
  ...There are aftermarket springs > which can bring you up to Syncro level but then your CV's may need > upgrading too at that level...
• Re: Kens trip & can Westys climb mountains?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:14:41 -0600
  ...That's a 5200 foot climb from sea level in 17 miles." Not much of a comparison between starting at sea level and going...
• Re: cognitive dissonance and refrigerators
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:15:29 -0400
  ...The leveling spec is in the fridge manual. IIRC it's +/- 8 degrees (18% grade) in both planes, which is more generous than most...
• Re: Vanagon Electrical Puzzle 2
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sun, 24 Apr 2022 08:44:26 +0200
  ...Anyway, I´ll stick with level sensor and/or Relay3, Mark´s explanation of LED function does support that Am 24.04.2022 um...
• Re: 1988 Westy Water tank level,sensor
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:29:02 -0500
  At 03:44 PM 12/2/2015, Dennis Jowell wrote: >Does anyone know the difference of the water tank level sensor that >GOWESTY sells...
• Re: 1990 Blinking Coolant Light Mystery
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:43:08 -0700
  mark drillock wrote: > The blinking light can be caused by either a real drop in coolant level > in the main tank, a false reading...
• 90 Vanagon trans 3rd gear grinding
  Historical mailing list - Don Erbel
  Sun, 30 Aug 1998 20:03:11 EDT
  ...The problem turned up this summer when I drove it up from sea level to abotu 5-7000 feet, but it persists still at...
• Re: Fw: Flashing Coolant light on a diesel van.
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Sun, 8 Apr 2001 16:01:57 -0700
  What lamp is flashing? If you don't have level sensor there shouldn't be light either. Leon 85 Subwagen Westy Torrance, CA stephen...
• Grounds
  Historical mailing list - John Houser
  Sat, 12 May 2001 17:00:46 EDT
  ...When I bought it, the gas gauge, the coolant level light and the temperature gauge didn't work and the brake warning light stayed...
• 1985 Vanagon - temp. (degree) gauge not working
  Historical mailing list - Larry Word
  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:49:05 -0800
  ...My water level light works perfectly.....blinks initially then after registering water level ok, it turns off.... I never get anything out of my...
• Re: '85 not level?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:17:13 -0800
  ...I just > assumed that the rear springs had started to sag. > That's fairly common, is > it not? Although it is level and does...
• Re: fuel tank capacity?
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Pacheco
  Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:39:55 -0500
  ...Normal operation would have it picking up the gas at a safer and higher level.......so I'm thinking that this was pretty sound...
• Re: 81 Westfaila
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:32:00 -0800
  how do you top up your oil level? if you top it up to high mark it will go down to between high and...
• Re: Bulley manifesto against SUVs/marketing, Few Vanagon words
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:17:03 -0500
  ...Matthew Bulley >2,336 words--Grade Level: 9th Very large snip.... >. Don't further pollute the mail list... Manifesto?... more like a Chinook :^)
• Looking for website on spring spacers
  Historical mailing list - Jeff K
  Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:57:13 -0700
  Hi, A while ago someone posted a website they'd done on using plastic spacers under the rear springs to level the van. Anyone...
• Re: Automatic Trans. problems; Advice Needed!
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:23:41 -0700
  ...Fluid Levels in AT and Final Drive Or it could be that the PO simply overfilled the tranny and never had any service on...
• Re: mysterious intermittent squeek from rear end
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:40:12 -0500
  Do you suppose the transmission was installed low on oil? Going mostly down hill may starve one section of the trans.On the level...
• Re: Re: kooltrons (was Re: STAT...)
  Historical mailing list - Brad Hopp
  Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:02:19 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Be sure the van is Level prior to sticking these on! 2. Spend whatever time neccessary to get that bug EXACTLY level. 3. Turn...
• Re: Leveling shims for Vanagon springs
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:58:55 -0600
  ...I've been > reading the > > archives about leveling solutions. One solution suggests leveling > shims for > > the Vanagon springs to coorect the sway to the...
• Re: Oil Seal Question
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:07:51 -0800
  ...was this a "sudden" occurance or major increase over the normal amount of oil residue? (say, between oil level checks) To me, that could...
• Re: Oil warning light?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:05:27 -0400
  ...Morrison wrote: >In checking my oil level I noticed it was at the level that would probably >be called Very Full. Oil change coming...
• Re: Beds, Valves, Advice
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 15:51:56 -0600
  ...board inside the fuel level sensor inside the tank and one of the traces was broken on mine. I tried to solder it back...
• Automatic Transmission Diagnosis- HELP!
  Historical mailing list - R.Joseph Murphy
  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:46:38 -0700
  ...differencial level - ok atf fluid level - ok tried adjusting the 2nd gear band - not much difference I'm thinking 2nd gear brake band piston...
• Blending water and diesel on purpose :-)
  Historical mailing list - Dominique Cormann
  Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:53:38 -0500
  ...The big issue being the NOx levels, since thats what diesels are being persecuted for in the US. -- ============================================================--------- Dominique Cormann Email: dcormann@kozmik.guelph...
• Getting my 1985 Vanagon's front radiator fan to come on sooner
  Historical mailing list - Larry Word
  Tue, 15 May 2007 08:37:50 -0700
  My daily driver is acting strange....I usually run straight up between low/high on my temp./water level gauge on dash......BUT now...
• Re: Audible Idiot "Light"...EE Inventor Wanted
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:42:34 -0800
  ...except for the coolant level sensor, which I think is a bit touchier than a simple "got ground" OR "got 12v" = "start buzzing" system...
• Boiling Point
  Historical mailing list - David Clark
  Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:14:12 -0000
  ...If I stop when the road levels out usually to pay a road toll, or slow down for the customs post - clouds of steam...
• Re: Coolant resistance thru coolant level probe
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:18:44 -0700
  ...Had a small crack in the pressure tank between the pressure cap > and the coolant level sensor. Since I had to disassemble things anyway...
• Re: Coolant loss in expansion tank but not fill tank
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:58:52 -0500
  Pam, For the purposes here, lets call the tank where the coolant level sensor is the Expansion Tank. The tank where the hose from...
• Re: "Troll" posting: Rescue Tape still in place...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:09:40 -0700
  ...I just monitor my overflow tank to check my coolant level at every gas stop, as I check my oil level. I scan my...
• Re: '90 Westy 2.1L Coolant System Concerns
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:48:14 -0800
  ...About two weeks > ago, I added a bit > more coolant to the cold van to bring the level just > above the min mark. > > Yesterday...
• Re: Tranny oil-level (AA Trans take on the subject)
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:45:16 -0500
  ...Bentley claims that in an effort to ease > shifting, the recommended level for oil (on I believe it was 85 on), was > actually 15mm...
• My van makes coolant!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:51:39 -0700
  ...Let the engine cool, and noticed that engine had sucked in a bit of coolant so I added a taste to bring the level...
• Re: Dometic fridge question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 8 Nov 2015 01:31:49 +0000
  ...Early panels had a fourth water level LED there, and > when it lit the water pump was disabled. The early fridge had a > panel...
• Re: Water level sensor
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:46:11 -0600
  ...bob On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Troy <colorworks@gci.net> wrote: > Hi folks: > > My water level sensor quit over the...
• Re: 4 spd transmission noise, low oil level
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:07:44 -0800
  ...4 spd transmission noise, low oil level > The 4 speed transmission in my '85 Westy started making noise when > underway. I looked under and...
• Puzzling Observation - nonVW
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:02:03 -0700
  ...with about 1/2 the time at either of these distinct levels. The puzzle to me is what could cause this? My first thought...
• Re: Coolant System Pressurization Woes
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Ryan
  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:13:27 EST
  ...overpressurization of the expansion tank, driving the fluid level down below the sensor warning level. In the shop we were able to note the...
• No water--faulty submersible pump?
  Historical mailing list - John Schaper
  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:51:38 -0700
  ...Water level sensor works and is accurate. Is it a faulty submersible water pump or an bad electrical connection at the faucet? How does...