On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Higginbotham, David A. wrote:

> OK, the location of the cylinder head temp sensor, I should be able to
> see this while standing behind the van looking into the engine
> compartment, not from under the van?

Yes.  But since it's on a part of the engine that faces the side of the
engine bay it can be hard to spot.  It's towards the back, as I recall.
If you have trouble, try using a mirror, or find the wire and then follow
it. The last aircooled I worked on was in a '75 bus, so I'm not sure if
there's anything new in the way on the Vanagon.  I don't think the sensor
location changed, though.  (Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm
leading you in the wrong direction.)

> In my excuse for an attempt at my defense. :) Yep, I wondered at the big
> difference in the wrench size of the parts, but the business end looked
> the same and threaded by finger without a problem and the wire was the
> same with the same connector, so I simply thought aftermarket
> difference's, things change, try it and see, etc.

Fair enough.  I think if you look very closely you'll see that the oil
pressure sender has a small hole in the business end.  Easy to miss,
though.  I had a heck of a time finding some of these parts at first, too.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si