Robin Davies wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>   While installing new plugs in Leslie the Syncro Westie, I felt one
> of the million wires in the Vanagon nervous system break it's
> connection. Sure enough there is a stray brown wire now hanging in my
> engine bay... Well, the van runs great and I'm chugging around
> Southern Wisconsin and I notice I no longer have a coolant temp
> reading. Nada-just dead. I must have killed that connection, I have
> the Bentley. Tried track that mysterious brown wire - no luck. A poke
> around under the hatch-still no luck. Any of you wizards want to help
> this pseudo wrench out? Looking in the bay the wire is on the left
> near the rear cylinder. Somebody find that wire a home please.
>
> Thanks Ya'll  R.
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Hi Robin,

Many of the wires are DIN color-coded. Brown usually denotes ground and
may be the ground side of the temp gauge. try connecting it to ground
(with a fused jumper)and check the temp gauge function.

Regards,          John