Haha you are clearly smarter than me and unfortunately smarter than my mechanic too :)  

The reason I got the new VR last year was because at approximately the same time my gas gauge would only go to about 95% full even when the tank was full, and the temp gauge began to normally read just a smidgen below normal (generally ran at the LED level).

The LED light was always finicky ever since I bought the van 20 years ago.  When it was humid, it would flash for extended periods.  Sometimes if I let it flash for five seconds before starting it would stop flashing.  When dry it was fine.

Then last fall it kept flashing and wouldn’t stop.  Not long after the temp needle began to peg immediately at startup.  

The old foil didn’t make a good connection to the harness and was fussy anyway.  That’s why i bought the used foil from Jeff years ago.  I am less pleased with my temp gauge purchase this year :)

Jeff

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 10:37 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
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> Jeez, Jeff, if you got any advice from me I hope it was to measure things and actually find out what's wrong, not throw stuff at it randomly.
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> This system is *easy* to diagnose, if you do it systematically.
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>> But the temp gauge continued to peg upon startup.  Gauge flashed for five seconds then turned off.
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> The first thing is a precise scond-by-second description of what happens to gauge and light in the first twenty seconds after turnign the key on.  Second is do you have tall old or short new coolant level controller?
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>> Any suggestions on the pegging temp gauge?  Maybe I’m just ultra low on coolant (wouldn’t that be fantastic.  Sigh).
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> What would be fantastic would be just diagnose the problem and fix it.  It isn't magic.  But it means being precise about descriptions and eliminating things in a defined order.
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> Yrs,
> d
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>> Jeff
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