So, other than the oil LED thing, you likee the "water hose in the
engine compartment" technique of removing road schmutz?

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 08/24/2012 03:31 PM, Richard Koerner wrote:
> One thing I learned from the "water hose in the engine compartment
> trick" is that you may get a dull glow at the oil LED on the dashboard;
> due to water + dirt making a slightly conductive path at the oil sensor.
> Dull glow of oil LED goes away once excess water in nooks and crannies
> in the area has heated up and evaporated (at least it did for me and has
> not re-appeared after 4 months).
>
> Rich
> San Diego
>
> --- On *Fri, 8/24/12, Rocket J Squirrel /<camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>/*
> wrote:
>     Was tracing out some wires in the old engine bay and noticed that all
>     the wires were brown. "This wire," I thought, "should be yellow with a
>     red stripe* ... oh, wait, that's just dust."
>
>     A lot of dust.