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Subject:Re: Watch out Westy, there is a new kid in town!
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:03:13 -0500

and I likely jumbled up what I thought I knew about the switches.  But in principle, you want to use the switch that is equivalent to the way the vehicle came from the factory.  

---- Paul <wognacious@GMAIL.COM> wrote: 
> My bad the Blue is a .25 Bar
> 
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Paul <wognacious@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Point well taken, I must say I do have to agree with that logic. On a more
> > Vanagon related note I recently wrote, erroneously, about an oil pressure
> > switch issue. It was regarding a 1.9L and now I'm finding that there are
> > two switches that will allegedly work in that location between the push rod
> > tubes. There is a .3 Bar (Brown) and a 2.5 Bar (Blue) the latter is said to
> > eliminate the "idiot light" blinking issue. What is the general consensuses
> > on this? Is the Brown or Blue one correct or does it even matter?
> > Wondering in Tracy
> > Pablo R 85 WWW
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Paul wrote:
> >>
> >> > They should let Westy owners, and others, bring our rigs to the dealer
> >> and
> >> > do a weekend exchange kinda deal. We leave our Westys as collateral,
> >> more
> >> > or less, and they let us "Demo" their unit on a weekend jaunt. It would
> >> be
> >> > very interesting to see what the opinion of the vehicle would be
> >> > then..........
> >>
> >> Just my $0.02 here, but….. I think that's too weak of an inferred
> >> position to
> >> take. I think that "we", the public that "they" are being targeted with
> >> "their"
> >> marketing $$$, have the power-position, and should just walk in and
> >> suggest
> >> that we get to drive their demo's for a weekend, rather than their sales
> >> staff.
> >>
> >> bob
> >
> >
> >

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David McNeely