The box is the cold zone. Drive gently until it warms up. If it gets too
hot, the light will let you know.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:46 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Temp gauge label explanation?

I am a little puzzled about the labeling on the temperature gauge (84
WBX).

The engine starts cold, and the pointer is over on the left hand side.
That side of the scale has a box.  After the engine has warmed up, the
pointer generally swings up out of the box to straight up and that's
where it lives, mostly.

So cold is on the left, and hot is on the right.

I presume that if it swings more to the right then we are heating up.
There is nothing on the right to indicate "Help! Too Hot!"

And what of the larger box on the left? "Brr, I am too cold?"

I would expect the box on the left to be the Hot Zone, but the pointer
goes the other way.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR