Brad,

Have you noticed a corresponding change in the accuracy of your gas guage?
If so, could be the little voltage regulator for the guages. Costs about 5
bucks.

John Flaherty
Portland, Maine
'84 GL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Flubacher" <flub@ADELPHIA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: running a little cool?

> For about a year, my '84 wasserboxer ran with the needle just to the
> left of the center of the LED on the temp gauge.  About a month ago, I
> notice it was running about a full needle width the the left of the LED.
>  I finally got around to replacing the thermostat, temp gauge sender,
> and the radiator, and it's still running at the same temperature!  When
> I ground the sender's wire, the LED blinks and the gauge starts its way
> all the way to the right.  I've cleaned the wire, and used pliers to
> tighten its grasp on the sender.  I've rulled out a lot.  Maybe the
> sender has lost calibration of some sort?  Maybe I'm worried all for
> not??  Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
> State College, PA
>