Of course you now have no low coolant warning system. Since the temp gauge
sensor is not mounted on the engine, a massive coolant loss will not give a
hi temp gauge reading until after you make steam with what little water is
left in the engine. At that point the engine is on its way to being useful
for melting into toy soldiers or becoming an artificial reef. You need to
get the low coolant part working.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:20 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Late night - blinking light

At  9/6/2009 12:39 AM, John Rodgers wrote:

>I've got a coolant level sensor light that comes on at startup (as it
>should) but never goes out (as it should) after just a few seconds of
>running.

On my '84 I pulled the low level relay and that cured the problem of
the 'always blinking' LED. The gauge LED still tests on start up and works.

Rob

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Western Washington State, USA