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Subject:Re: Oil Pressure Buzzer? After Tach Wiring.
From:Michael Knight
Date:Mon, 16 May 2005 14:14:12 -0500

>From: John Bange

The later model clusters have a dynamic oil pressure system
>circuit board that monitors the tach and starts watching the .9 bar
>sensor insteadd of the .3 bar sensor at engine speeds over 2000rpm.
>Until the tach wire was connected, it didn't know you were over
>2000rpm. Since the .9 bar switch is an "open below .9, closed above"
>type, it sees your lack of a switch as a low pressure condition.

Yes it is still a stock 1.9L. I still have the original cluster. Could i
swap the circuit board? The 2.1L "2" switch setup, is this 2 senders? Can I
replace my sender with the 2.1L sender?

Michael Knight
'77 Westy Deluxe, "el Verde"
'85 Vanagon GL, nameless
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