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Subject:Re: oil light/buzzer comes on for no reason
From:Ken Lewis
Date:Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:07:08 -0500

Greg,
If memorey serves me, the circuitry fot the buzzer is behind the speedometer
cluster. You would need to ground the input there.

Ken Lewis
86 Transporter Crew Cab
60 356 T-5 Porsche
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stelz" <gstelz2@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: oil light/buzzer comes on for no reason

> hello everyone,
>
> Here's the story.  I have a VDO oil pressure gauge
> I've been using for about a year now...works great.
> The factory high pressure oil switch is totally
> disconnected and the wire is grounded.  The low
> pressure switch is now part of the new VDO sending
> unit.  It has an 8 psi threshold.  This also works
> great.  If the oil pressure drops below 8 psi, the
> light will blink, but no buzzer.  Today, the buzzer
> and light started coming on when the engine revs to
> about 2500 RPM.  The gauge reads about 45 psi at this
> point.  Short of taking a 12 sledge hammer to the
> instrument cluster, how do I make it
> stop...permanently?
>
> Happy new year,
> Greg Stelz
> 86 vgon
> Delaware, Ohio
>
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