

| Subject: | Re: The vanagaon temp gauge is crap |
| From: | TJ Hannink |
| Date: | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:29:27 -0700 |
My temp gauge moves all over the place; from a full needle's width under the LED on the open road in cooler weather, to a full needle's width above the LED in stop-n-go traffic with or without A/C. The radiator cooling fan run times don't correspond to any position of the gauge needle because the fan is on when the A/C is on and because of the large physical distance between the gauge and fan sensors. Lately, my radiator fan is on the 2nd speed anytime I stop because of high side pressure in the A/C system. I quit constantly monitoring the temp gauge a long time ago. I have also stopped waiting for the impending breakage of the 3-4 slider in the original transmission since the van went over 200k miles (now over 230k). I'm sure now I have said that publicly, it will fail tomorrow :>). I'll be camping this weekend and most of next week, but not in the Vanagon, its too hot, I'll be in the Wanderlodge. Happy 4th, TJ Hannink Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition 1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge, FC-33 Winter Park, Florida http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers http://photos.yahoo.com/tjhannink [Vanagon] Album FAVOR website: http://home.earthlink.net/~clubvanagon --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
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