Black tape will do the job.  Then you can figure a way to work around the
coolant light.  I installed an oil temp gauge, used in tandem with my
coolant temp gauge and my alternator light I can deduce what is actually
happening inside my motor rather than having to wonder if that blinking
light means anything THIS time, or if it is simply sending another false
warning.
  After wasting time beating that particular "Dead Horse"... The sketchy
blinking light that gets so much bandwidth amongst Vanagon owners... I
found a better way.  My Blinky-Light has been taped over now for 4yrs and
about 70k miles.   Not elegant, but I have better things to do than
fiddle-d-f**k, repeatedly, with something the VW engineering didn't get
quite right.
   Now, if we could tape up leaky heads on the Wbx motors,  we could all be
driving fun places mor
 On Dec 12, 2014 9:35 AM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have now driven Vanagons for so long that I can no longer separate the
> problems I have had in past years from problems I read about on the list ;
> )
>
> I am having a problem now where on a warm day, I have to shut down my
> engine after starting and restart to get the blinking light to go off. This
> gets worse as it gets colder to the point that in the 30Fs, I might have to
> wait a minute or two and restart as many as three times. It always goes
> off, though.
>
> I have had problems before similar to this, but to my recollection not
> exactly line this. Compounding that is the fact that coolant light blinking
> is such a common problem that  a problem I had 12 or 15 years ago sounds
> suspiciously like what I was reading about a week or two ago. I don't
> remember if my previous blinking light problem had anything to do with cold
> weather but this one seems to.
>
> In any event, it's a common problem.
>
> My sensor is clean, my connections are good, my coolant is properly mixed
> and fresh and I have pressed the back of the temp gauge while the car is
> running and no change. My grounds are good and in fact I have an extra
> ground or two.
>
> Any ideas? Come on, help me fix it QUICK while it is the only thing wrong
> with the car!
>
> Jim
>