Nice write-up John.  My '84 needs this, as at this time of year the blinky
light stays on until the van is warm enough (the capacitor is warm enough?)
to hold electricity.

I just ignore the damn thing in the wintertime since I am confident that the
van hasn't lost all its coolant overnight!  =)

Seeya, Jake

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM, John Meeks <vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Van Pilots,
>
> The symptom: coolant light would do it's normal diagnostic blinking, then a
> few seconds later would start blinking continuously till the engine ran a
> bit and was restarted.
>
> This winter my coolant light started blinking when the air temp got down to
> 30�F when last winter it had to get down to about 5� F. I shrewdly
> discerned
> a trend. So naturally I went about fixing the problem completely opposite
> than what logic would suggest.
>
> Removed the temp guage from the tach cluster and performed a successful
> capacitor transplant. Feeling pretty good, I reassembled the  the whole
> thing and fired up. blink...blink...blink... arrgh.   Checked the level
> sensor and yep, way out of spec.
> MegaOhms.     DOH!!
>
> Anyway I wrote it all up with logic and pictures and put it on the web:
> http://www.vanagonauts.com/Warning-Light-Fix241.htm
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> John Meeks
> '91 Multivan
> Northern Michigan
>
> Vanagon Rescue Squad
> http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm
>
> Radio Call:KC8ZFN
>

-- 
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL
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