Found both my brown oil pressure wire and the green vdo wire to the external
op sender all but fried when I went to replace the oil cooler o ring gasket.
wires must blow around when going down the highway and get on the exhaust
manifold.  I routed my replacement wires up through the valve cover bail and
zip tied it there and taped the pair to the skinny water hose(90 GL) that
runs to the small plastic tubing around the engine compartment.  I think the
wire would be okay if it didn't contact the manifold.  I was down to the
copper for over an inch.

DM&FS
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Oil pressure wire rubbed bare?

>Tape is as good as anything, you can replace the wire and cover it with
>heat shrink tubing the next time you take the sheet metal off down
>there.  This happened to me on my '84, it sure does get you off the
>freeway in a hurry when it comes on at 70 mph!  Since it didn't start to
>overheat I figured it was a short and kept going after a brief stop to
>check the oil.
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