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• Re: radiator fan and A/C
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:01:59 -0600
  ...The switches are available in a number of different temperature settings. The originals were set quite high to avoid nuisance running during hot weather...
• Dometic Fan Upgrade- Addendum
  Historical mailing list - John P. Stoneback
  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:16:44 -0500
  ...My primary change to Bill's suggestions was to install three micromini spst switches at the top of the grill where I mounted the...
• Re: drive from Oklahoma to Spokane, WA
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Oct 2014 11:39:08 -0400
  ...mcneely ---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > The fan emits quite a roar when it switches on in my '84. Going up...
• Re: Advice needed: engine speed jumping abruptly
  Historical mailing list - Scarlett Semko
  Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:36:15 -0500
  ...3.) reset the switches on the throttle body. I recently had the tranny out for a rebuild, and I had not adjusted the accelerator...
• Re: Warning light
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 6 Nov 2014 06:30:01 -0500
  The buzzer/warning light goes off together and is located In the temperature gauge ( tachometer) Not by the oil can warning light speedometer area...
• 84 Westy stumbles off idle
  Historical mailing list - Geo
  Wed, 5 May 2010 09:57:32 -0400
  84 Westy, 1.9L, Manual -- With the engine at operating temperature, when taking off from a stop... all is well if I gently depress...
• Re: Radiator Fan Switch Problem Fixed & Alternate Flushing Method FISH
  Historical mailing list - Warner, Jeff (DSIO-MS)
  Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:49:24 -0400
  ...a used one on eBay! I bought the colder of two switches that Bus Boys sells. Part number 251-959-481K. Here's a...
• Re: Redline Water Wetter + No-Rosion
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:49:52 -0400
  ...If you must do this go to lower temp thermostat and fan switches. Keep in mind that straight water will boil at lower temperatures...
• Re: 2.1L coolant light problem
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:45:29 -0400
  ...A lot of people have also tinkered with the dynamics of this system by putting in thermostats or thermo switches with different setpoints, and...
• Re: Watch out Westy, there is a new kid in town!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:00:38 -0500
  Paul, the two switches are for two different locations on the vehicle they are intended for. I don't know for sure about the...
• RE: Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:39:30 -0700
  ...high or were inappropriately located, and should be replaced by lower temperature switches or relocated to the motor or both. Keeping the radiator within...
• Re: radiator fan and A/C
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:34:45 -0700
  ...to test-replace the fan switch. > The switches are available in a number of different temperature settings. > The originals were set quite high to...
• Re: Cruise control diagnosis progress - ambient temp?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:01:10 -0800
  ...about cooler temperatures that makes it inop? > Anthony > '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) > > > Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote: Bellows good. > Pedal switches good. > > Removed...
• Re: heating issue on 85
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 12 May 2003 06:42:30 -0600
  ...Does this line of reasoning seem reasonable?, are thermostat switches known for failing?, is this a huge undertaken?, Do you have any words of...
• Oil cooling..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:15:18 -0800
  ...Thermo-switches. a good http://www.batinc.net/main.htm source for Mocal and Tilton parts as well as all kinds of AN and...
• Re: drive from Oklahoma to Spokane, WA
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 5 Oct 2014 09:26:10 -0700
  ...All USA market Vanagons came with dual temp switches in the radiator. The 82 is a special case that came with 2 switch holes...
• Re: No heat from my 84
  Historical mailing list - James Ruch
  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:09:57 PDT
  ...then again I've installed toggle and momentary switches to replace the ignition/starter switch... and bits of copper tube and PVC here and...
• Re: Water Level Indicator Red Blinking Light
  Historical mailing list - George Averill
  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:21:42 -0500
  ...I think the problem was a bad combined coolant temperature gauge/coolant over-temperature warning light. Any way, things worked great for a couple...
• Re: '86 Westy A/C Switch Desperately Needed
  Historical mailing list - David Gunning
  Thu, 25 May 2006 16:29:27 -0400
  ...This > circular, black switch controls on/off and fan speed (inner) and > temperature (outer ring). Note that these switches are UNIQUE TO WESTIES > of...
• Re: Oil light and warning
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:47:00 +0000
  ...The oil pressure > switches are readily available, but the circuit board that goes in the dash > pod is not. It seems to be NLA...
• Re: parts for the fridge? (Fan Control)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Wed, 22 May 2002 20:17:34 +0000
  ...in parallel with separate switches, so you can can choose to have one or both come on when the temperature rises. Remember to turn...
• Re: HELP Flashing red temp light!
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:14:44 -0700
  ...If you turn it on when the system is at operating temperature, do you smell antifreeze? The light on later Vanagons will start blinking...
• intermittent loss of both fans; please help
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:23:53 -0600
  ...It's cold here in Winnipeg, approximately -30 C since Christmas, and I think I "may" have a temperature related electrical problem. Sometimes when...
• Re: Losing Power (the solution)
  Historical mailing list - tbill
  Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:27:43 -0500
  ...or out-of-date (expansion tanks, distributor cap, > rotors, plug wires, temperature switches). (Surprize, surprize) It was akin to a house > remodeling. I'm...
• Re: Cooling Fan Themoswitch Woes
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:25:54 -0500
  ...I'm guessing that these things are some sort of bimetalic switches that > rely on heat expansion? > 3) Is there anything particularly bad about...
• Re: Subaru was: 2.1l engine / Digifant / AC Detail
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:07:48 EDT
  ...low speed fan switches (radiator), high and low pressure AC switches and compressor activity. No noticeable effect on oil temperature. Hope this helps. Frank...
• 83 h20 fuel injection problem
  Historical mailing list - Terrence Tickle
  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:18:00 -0400
  ...6) Checked out the engine temperature sensor with the engine hot. Perhaps that is enough for now ... I would value any suggestions that may...
• Electrical genuis-es here is one for you..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:09:34 -0800
  ...I may have two concurrent problems, but the main one it the EFI switches on to 'full rich' mode and causes the van to...
• Pulsing idle UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - Marcus Schaper
  Wed, 14 Apr 1999 01:14:11 EDT
  ...WHAT I HAVE DONE: - checked all the wiring - checked the throttle switches (both click in the extreme positions) - disconnect the idle position switch Now...
• Re: Temp II Again
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:06:07 -0400
  ...The ECU basically uses the temp sensor to replace multiple temperature switches. During cold start, a range is set for cold start enrichment and...
• Re: 71 Poptop Oil PSI question!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 1 Jun 1996 14:14:39 -0400
  Stock OEM oil pressure switches are generally designed to come on at idle (900 to 1000 RPM) at about 2 to 5 PSI (which...
• Suggestions to improve Westy A/C airflow
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:29:53 -0700
  ...With 100F intake temperature the outlet temperature should be near 70F, as the interior air cools the intake temperature and outlet temperature should track...
• Re: Dometic 182 B Fridge- Ad Nauseum
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:49:30 -0400
  ...I vary the setting >for lighting with temperature ---- only if it is really hot will I light it >with the setting on high. (This...
• Re: Dometic
  Historical mailing list - James V
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:22:27 -0700
  ...It comes with two thermo-switches: one 140�F switch to be placed on the burner tube to first detect that the fridge is...
• Re: Replacing heater switch
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:29:38 -0700
  ...meanwhile, temperature plummets (it no being winter , temperaturly if not officially. Motor arrives and is thrown into van as it is far to cold...
• Re: Oil pressure gremlin
  Historical mailing list - Ron Olsen
  Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:03:33 +1000
  ...When you grab the dipstick, the temperature should not be uncomfortably hot, i.e. if you can't hold the dipstick, the motor's...
• Re: full throttle switch boost - HOW TO?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:01:43 EDT
  ...There are no excess, unnecessary frivolous switches or wires or sensors in any factory electronic fuel management installation. Includes European, Japanese and American models...
• Re: Dometic-Condenser fan running!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:42:39 -0500
  Steven, the fan runs whenever the temperature reaches 126 F, and turns off when it falls to 106 F. It does not matter whether...
• Re: Van dying once warmed up; FI motor
  Historical mailing list - John Y. Hung
  Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:05:32 -0500
  ...On my Vanagon, there is a coolant temperature sensor, air temperature sensor, air flow sensor, O2 sensor, and several switches to check. On most...
• Re: Great Wiper Blades
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:55:43 -0800
  As a matter of information, Valeo is connected to SWF, an OEM supplier of wiper motors, blades, refills, turn signal switches, radiators, heater core...
• My Dometic is nuts!
  Historical mailing list - Barbara Sutton/Cris Torlasco
  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:40:47 -0700
  ...Everything went extremely well, Fafner (our '91 Westie) rode flawlessly through steep loose gravel roads, with temperatures in the upper 90's. (I'll...
• Re: Heater removal
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:37:09 -0600 (CST)
  ...Several of the switches in this van have had that happen to them.... I'm conjecturing that it was getting harder to turn the...
• Re: Water Level Indicator Red Blinking Light
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:48:39 -0600
  ...I think > the problem was a bad combined coolant temperature gauge/coolant > over-temperature warning light. Any way, things worked great for a couple...
• Re: Overcooling Hypothesis--Long
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:06:45 -0800
  ...I'm talking about an '84 1.9 with the twin switches on the throttle body--maybe in later years VW corrected this with...
• Re: AC and engine temps
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:58:55 -0500
  ...The AC stays on CONSTANTLY in the summer, regardless of outside >temperature, or number of fat-bodies/amount of firewood in the vehicle. I...
• temperature-oil pressure (rather long)
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:33:30 -0400
  My '91 Vanagon GL Campmobile 2.1 VW engine shows evidence of oil pressure drop at running temperature -- but I'm not sure it...
• Re: Dometic-Condenser fan running!
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:51 -0500
  ...But yes, I suppose it could be wired so that the fan would not run unless one of the three mode switches was engaged...
• Re: lets talk about oil pressure issues
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:05:31 -0500
  ...Due to the oil to water heat exchanger and the design of the engine, outside temperatures have little effect on oil temperature after things...
• electronics rant, (don't read it if you don't want to)
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:11:40 -0500
  ...This unit has a touch screen which is the means of controlling the AC, heater, audio, and is how one switches among various informational...
• Re: Heat handling design error help
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:23:17 -0400
  ...high or were inappropriately >located, and should be replaced by lower temperature switches or >relocated to the motor or both. Keeping the radiator within...
• Re: Fridge madness 201 (average temperature)
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:46:23 -0700
  ...The temp switches do go bad but not as often as the fans do. Mark Ben huot wrote: > ........... > 3-I did those test in...
• Re: temperature-oil pressure (rather long)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:41:01 -0400
  ...temperature-oil pressure (rather long) My '91 Vanagon GL Campmobile 2.1 VW engine shows evidence of oil pressure drop at running temperature -- but...
• Re: a/c cutout switch
  Historical mailing list - GMBulley
  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:47:11 EDT
  ...The alloy melts at a very specific temperature: a temp attainable only at very high pressure. The other, the one you are probably looking...
• Mechanics Puzzle
  Historical mailing list - Alex Towner
  Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:05:57 -0500
  ...So while the light may work normally (part of the temperature sensing circuit), the part of the relay that switches the power to the...
• Re: starting but running
  Historical mailing list - Justin B. Jensen
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:02:52 -0600
  ...While you are at it clean the throttle body and the bypass air regulator and make certain that the throttle switches are adjusted according...
• Re: Vanagon Vent Control Positions
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:54:37 -0500
  ...Second lever (2) from the top is the heat setting - in the left most position is the natural, unheated air temperature, and as you...
• Re: Summer Oil pressure drop + higher temperatures with oil error (Was: Is 20w50 Oil OK in the winter?)
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:16:03 -0800
  ...Oil pressure switches aren't as cheap, but still worth the effort. Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: David Marshall [mailto:vanagon@volkswagen.org] Sent...
• Re: Wasserboxer cooling (was:Re: aftermarket instrumentation)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 15 May 1996 04:22:58 -0700
  ...You say "I expect that you'll say - "Ahhh, that's only coolant temperature." No, as a matter of fact, your experience described with...
• Re: OXS & Batt. Lights just came on
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:10:18 -0700
  ...Make sure it is at least 12.5v or higher (depending on temperature, type of battery, and current state of charge.) if below that...
• Re: Hesitation with acceleration
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sat, 13 May 2000 17:00:51 -0500
  ...My throttle switches are working fine, as is the TempII sensor.. However, I seem to notice the problem less after I fill up the...