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Subject:Re: 1990 Blinking Coolant Light Mystery
From:Geo & Kathleen Hahn
Date:Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:43:08 -0700

mark drillock wrote:

> The blinking light can be caused by either a real drop in coolant level
> in the main tank, a false reading of a drop in the main tank, or a
> problem in the dash.

FWIW - I had an intermittment flashing coolant level light that I
finally traced to a pinched wire (one of the pair of leads from the
sensor).  The pinch had broken the insides but was allowing them to come
into contact some of the time (no flash) and separate some of the time
(flash) due to heat, vibration or whatever.  Don't recall the precise
location where they got pinched... somewhere down below the coil.

Geo Hahn

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