At 07:14 PM 10/20/2009, neil n wrote:
>A temp gauge with a digital clock?

No, an analog(ue) clock with both temp and fuel gauges, top and bottom.

>Looking through Bentley section 90 at USA and Canada '80-'84, I don't
>see a cluster with a temp gauge and analogue clock.

That section is infuriatingly thin, misleading and
inaccurate.  They're using air-cooled panel images to pass for all
the 2.0l/1.9l Vanagons and the diesels too.  It's a rotten
shame.  Getting anything from there involves combing the entire
section and pulling bits out from all over the place.

>  Don't know why,
>but really like the old school clock.   :)

Me too.  Mine was also extraordinarily accurate, easily within five
seconds a month IIRC, winter and summer.  But the difference is that
I *enjoy* the clock but I *value* the tach, so the tach wins.

>Also, in studying section 90, I noticed that the middle pin of my '81
>voltage stabilizer, is not connected.
>
>Since the metal tab on the voltage stabilizer is attached to ground
>path on foil, is this providing ground to the stabilizer in place of
>pin 2?

Yes, it's a common configuration in packages like that, that the
heat-sink tab will be connected to one of the pins.  Which is why
when you reach into your stereo you might find a couple of big heat
sinks at plus and minus sixty volts or so...always pays to check
before poking at things.

Yrs,
D