

| Subject: | disabling the damn oil buzzer |
| From: | Tim Leek |
| Date: | Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:23:30 -0400 |
Vanagon people, I have an 87 Vanagon that likes to buzz at me and flash the oil light after 15 minutes. Super annoying. Wife wants me to sell the piece of $*&#$. Oil pressure is fine (according to click and clack). Yes, I've replaced both oil pressure senders. No, I don't have time or money to diagnose the wiring harness or that dynamic oil pressure L- board behind the speedo. So ... I'm looking to disable the buzzer somehow. Here are the options as I see them. 1. Short the 0.9 bar sensor where it comes into the L-board to ground. This works, i.e. if I pull over whilst the buzzing is happening and do this, the buzzing stops. But is this a bad idea somehow? 2. Remove that stupid L-board, since (after staring at the wiring diagrams) doesn't it just serve to warn you when the oil pressure is not in spec? I can't see how it actually "controls" anything. Unfortunately, I've tried this and it means I can no longer start the car. Perhaps I can't just take it out without jumping some magic wires together? 3. Find the buzzer and kill it dead. Okay, so where the hell is it? Is it the wee electro-mechanical looking device on one end of the aforementioned L-board? Is this bad idea since that buzzer wherever it lives buzzes when other bad things happen that I may want to know about like engine getting too hot. I'm leaning toward 1. Help!
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