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• Re: O2 sensor is a thermistor (longish)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 30 May 1996 17:08:31 -0400
  ...So, like the oil pressure/temp senders, the contact between the device (sender, O2 sensor) is responsible for the connection to ground. In the...
• Re: How to find a particular three-way electrical switch.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:54:14 -0400
  ...three VDO oil temperature senders to > one gauge (one on my pan, and one in each to/from line to my oil > cooler) and...
• 87 Westfalia - Running hot?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:54:16 +0000
  ...The temperature gauge runs somewhat above the LED. Over the years we have replaced the sender and the thermostat, and eventually the radiator and...
• Re: high idle speed
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:03:26 -0500
  ...temp_sender.htm (Half of the temp problems!!!) Remember that the new "F" thermostat WILL give you a 15-20% increase in temperature. http...
• Re: problems on the road
  Historical mailing list - jesse johnson
  Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:26:19 -0400
  ...do you have a genuine mann oil filter? don't use a fram ... run 20w 50 oil in temperatures above 60 degrees.. always... that...
• Re: Need some oil pressure help
  Historical mailing list - Colin Moran
  Sun, 24 May 1998 11:08:15 -0700
  ...I though it was just the light oil thinning at the warmer summer time temperatures. It was about 72degs the night my van quit...
• Re: # Importance of pressure and temp monitoring (long)
  Historical mailing list - Marla Stelk
  Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:55:55 -0400
  ...Good spot to measure oil pressure: Many have >recommended the 0.3 bar pressure switch location with >extension hose and dual sender or "T...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:15:00 -0700
  ...In that sense it's much more valuable than a temperature sender responding to the problem after the fact. I have lots of gauges...
• Re: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:48:44 -0700
  ...that temperature gauge is >> not oil temperature. Check your manual and you'll find that that >> gauge is for coolant temperature (sender is on...
• Re: coolant leak story
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:23:28 -0800
  ...But I do miss gauges and I have made a manifold to relocate stock oil pressure senders and to add additional sender for oil...
• Now that I have the gauges installed...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:56:20 -0700
  ...80 Vanagon camper, 2L engine Ambient temperature today: 85F Engine speed: 4K rpm head temp: 425-500F oil pressure: 45-60 psi (dropping as...
• Electrical Ground Connections / Temperature Sender; '81 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Lee Wood
  Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:45:16 PST
  ...of the engine, too? On a related note, I replaced the temperature sender on #3 cylinder head that sends info to the computer. It...
• Re: Minimal vanagon support kit
  Historical mailing list - aatransaxle
  Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:59:19 -0700
  ...New temperature sender. > Fan motor hot post repaired where broken during radiator replacement. > New coolant distribution manifold (the one that reportedly fails > catastrophically. Mine...
• Re: Now...Water and Oil idiot lights? Doh!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:29 -0400
  ...Tee" on your oil pressure port where >>you can use the gauge sender and the original VW idiot light sender? >> >>If you're using...
• Re: 1.9 turbo diesel oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Tobin Copley
  Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:05:37 -0700
  ...sensitive oil pressure senders? > Could it have anything to do with the type of oil filter being used? I > remember debates about oil filters...
• Re: # Importance of pressure and temp monitoring (long)
  Historical mailing list - Steven Dodson
  Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:28:52 -0400
  ...Good spot to measure oil pressure: Many have >recommended the 0.3 bar pressure switch location with >extension hose and dual sender or "T...
• Re: # Importance of pressure and temp monitoring (long)
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:16:14 -0400
  ...Good spot to measure oil pressure: Many have recommended the 0.3 bar pressure switch location with extension hose and dual sender or "T...
• Re: Now...Water and Oil idiot lights? Doh!
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Kimmons
  Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:47:08 -0500
  ...Tee" on your oil pressure port where > you can use the gauge sender and the original VW idiot light sender? > > If you're using...
• Re: Telemetry (was Re: Coolant pressure test... video.)
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:20:05 -0500
  ...cluster, wire and sender. Like you see on my video, that stupid thing is showing everything but the real engine temperature. I swapped the...
• Re: Buzzer of Death (2.1)
  Historical mailing list - John Koloski
  Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:57:18 -0500
  ...He saidthe sender sent oil pressure data to a computer which also examined other data like temperature and running time before making a decision...
• oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Pfrommer
  Sat, 5 May 2007 22:13:02 -0700
  ...oil filter right away (Mahle, black). After restarting, the temperature display would not move. After rebleeding and no change, i changed the sender, and...
• Re: Minimal vanagon support kit
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:04:54 -0700
  ...New temperature sender. >> Fan motor hot post repaired where broken during radiator replacement. >> New coolant distribution manifold (the one that reportedly fails >> catastrophically. Mine...
• Re: # Importance of pressure and temp monitoring (long)
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:09:51 -0400
  ...Good spot to measure oil pressure: Many have > recommended the 0.3 bar pressure switch location with > extension hose and dual sender or "T...
• Re: oil light
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:51:12 -0600
  ...The oil pressure sender >>>is really quite amazing on the Vanagon. It consist of two pressure switches >>>that must respond in the correct sequence...
• Re: 87GL rebuild update (oil pressure)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:25:07 -0800
  ...I've got both oil pressure > senders new... Then the engine stalls, or if you step on the gas, it > stalls...The outside temperature...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sun, 6 May 2007 04:45:54 -0400
  ...oil filter right > away (Mahle, black). > After restarting, the temperature display would not move. After > rebleeding and no change, i changed the sender, and...
• Re: Cold starting oil report Mobil 1 15w-50
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:49:03 -0800
  ...to get accurate temperatures without tapping into a case elsewhere to put the sender. My inline, running 15 40 diesel oil, or whatever I...
• Tacho installation: wiring
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 2 May 2000 10:24:40 +1200
  ...and earlier fuel and temperature senders are calibrated correctly for these later instruments? What is needed to get the oil buzzer working on 80...
• Re: Oil Pressure Lamp? Denoument.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 10 May 2012 19:25:35 -0400
  ...Coolant washed over the oil pressure gauge sender and oil pressure switch which are moved above the left head when using tencentlife's adapter...
• lief is an Oil temp guage on an '81...
  Historical mailing list - Leavitt
  Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:54:51 -0400
  ...I found a VDO oil temperature guage [VW#321919541A] in a junked watercooled VW, I think that it was a Rabbit, I forget. Anyway...
• go over for '91 camper, mechanical soundness and reliability
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:32:47 -0400
  ...New temperature sender. > Fan motor hot post repaired where broken during radiator replacement. > New coolant distribution manifold (the one that reportedly fails > catastrophically. Mine...
• Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 9 Apr 2011 07:25:00 -0400
  ...I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . . Oil temperature and pressure is really one of the Achilles heels of the...
• Re: Aux Oil Cooler install...results Aircooled vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:31:12 -0500
  ...Give it about two minutes to register and check it against your oil temperature gauge. (need the oil table up into the filler tube...
• # Vanagon motor overheating alert device (was: Coolant hoses - replace them! )
  Historical mailing list - TinkerMan
  Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:12:59 -0800
  ...had a leak in the oil cooler union which caused much coolant to leak overnight) then the sender just senses the temp of the...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Pfrommer
  Sun, 6 May 2007 01:49:07 -0700
  ...oil filter right >> away (Mahle, black). >> After restarting, the temperature display would not move. After >> rebleeding and no change, i changed the sender, and...
• Re: Trip and tire report
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:33:59 -0400
  ...Are you measuring at the center bearing like the sender does, or at a bypass plate on the oil filter? I'd expect to...
• Re: How to determine if you need new heads?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Tue, 12 May 2009 20:45:56 -0400
  ...New water pump, new little coolant hoses to oil cooler New thermostat new thermostat housing top New TempII sensor New Temp Sender New wiring...
• Re: simple oil temp measurement.... will this work?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:20:00 -0800
  ...to measure my oil temp but don't have a fancy VDO temp sender, etc. But i do have fancy temperature probes that are...
• Re: Overheating symptoms?
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:04:50 -0800 (PST)
  ...Next get an oil temperature gauge. Don't drive your bus hard if the temperature goes over 230 degrees F. Don't trust the...
• Re: Restoration of 1991 Carat MT
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:18:49 -0800
  ...Put�brand new senders while it is easy to do: Low Oil Pressure sender - between the pushrod tubes High Oil Pressure sender - below the...
• Re: oil light & buzzer
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:24:39 EDT
  ...Who knows, there may be a slim chance no oil pressure problem exists. I would use the electric sender unit as apposed to running...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:15:08 -0600
  ...Oil in your cold engine > is being pumped under pressure and even synthetic oil when cold yet at > temperatures above pour point will blow...
• Re: Diagnosing flashing lights
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 6 May 2021 07:07:50 -0700
  ...The temp > sender and the oil light are flashing as I drive. The temp sender has this > intermittent thing where the gauge goes all...
• Re: Trip and tire report
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:49:34 -0400
  ...Are you measuring at the center bearing like the sender does, or at a bypass plate on the oil filter? I'd expect to...
• Re: Oil pressure light and buzzer
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Tue, 5 Sep 2017 02:01:35 -0400
  ...warmer) oil? -Could it be a failing oil pump that has improved clearances as at increased temperature? On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1...
• fwd: Re: Re.: Synthetic oils
  Historical mailing list
  19 Aug 94 16:42:00 EDT
  ...Forward Text: (5 lines follow) Based on the results of lower oil temperature and higher head temperature, could it be that a, the oil...
• got Magic Bus repaired (was Re: Broke down in Omaha)
  Historical mailing list - Kragen Sitaker
  Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:52:17 -0400
  ...replaces the original oil drain plug, and one that replaces the original oil pressure sender with one that includes a temperature sensor. Which one...
• Re: How to find a particular three-way electrical switch.
  Historical mailing list - Luke Bakken
  Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:52:44 -0700
  ...three VDO oil temperature senders to >> one gauge (one on my pan, and one in each to/from line to my oil >> cooler) and...
• Re: Low Oil Pressure
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:59:53 -0500
  ...Here is what I'd do: #1) Be sure you have the right oil sender, they come in .4 Bar, .7 Bar and possibly...
• Watching Oil Temp (long, as usual)
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:55:22 -0700
  ...The oil temp gauge reports the temperature of hot oil returning from the heads mixed with general overall engine oil temp, so therefore it...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off Why, I'll tell you
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:22:01 -0500
  ...at these low temperatures, I reckon that the thicker summer oil was as thick as pine sap -- maybe amber -- resulting in very high oil...
• 82 now cranks but stil won't start when hot.
  Historical mailing list - Higginbotham, David A.
  Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:30:12 -0500
  ...the cylinder head temperature sensor, those following this thread may remember my screw up in replacing the oil temp sender instead. I did eventually...
• Re: Oil Light flashing
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:30:39 EDT
  ...It is however possible that the oil pressure is low for the high pressure sender which is indicating worn rod bearings and if that...
• Re: oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sun, 6 May 2007 09:24:10 -0400
  ...oil filter right >>> away (Mahle, black). >>> After restarting, the temperature display would not move. After >>> rebleeding and no change, i changed the sender, and...
• Re: cheap gauges from JC Whitney
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:52:25 -0500
  The response to low oil presssure is to stop the engine before it spins the bearings or blows up. The response to high temperature...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:03:35 -0900
  ...Oil in your cold engine is being pumped under pressure and even synthetic oil when cold yet at temperatures above pour point will blow...
• Re: Oil Pressure Lamp? Denoument.
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Thu, 10 May 2012 17:16:49 -0700
  ...Coolant washed over the oil pressure gauge sender and oil pressure switch which are moved above the left head when using tencentlife's adapter...
• Re: 87 Westfalia - Running hot?
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Wed, 4 Oct 2023 14:55:21 -0700
  ...The temperature gauge runs somewhat above the LED. Over the > years we have replaced the sender and the thermostat, and eventually the > radiator and...
• Re: Which switch for Oil Pressure?! 85 GL
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:07:05 -0700
  some of the list vendors sell a kit with the proper sender, wires for both the dynamic oil pressure warning system and an electric...
• Re: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:59:39 -0600
  ...at these low temperatures, I reckon that the thicker summer oil was as thick as pine sap -- maybe amber -- resulting in very high oil...