The oil pressure sending light wire runs close enough to the exhaust that
the insulations tendes to get brittle.  You could have a connected wire and
still have a short.  I did, and it freaked me out when it first happened.

Karl WOlz
-----Original Message-----
From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Many things

>Bob Bergeson wrote:
>
>> I had a bad muffler and dropped the $130 for a new one.  The tailpipe
added
>> another $30.  Wow!  I installed them last night with minimal issues.  I
then
>> got in the van and started it.  The oil light stayed on.  This has never
>> happened before.  I new that I had oil so I started driving.  It began to
>> dim and looked like it was out by the time I drove the 12 miles to my
house.
>> I turned off the lights with the van still running and could see the
>> slightest glow from this light.  I am confused.
>
>I guess you have accidentally pulled or knocked the wire off the oil
pressure
>sender, and the un-insulated connector is touching some ground somewhere.
With
>the wire dancing around from the movement of the car, and with different
>conductivity from dirt and corrosion, the light will flicker and glow etc.
>
>PerL
>88 Syncro