Re: Tech: A possible reason for high coolant readings?

["Bill Collins" <photo@intrex.net>]

Bently gives the procedure for testing the guage.  They use a special VW tool (of course!) to simulate the sender, but I think they give the resistance values so you can use some resistors from radio shack instead.

Bill

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "John C. Worden" <scirocco@powerlink.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 02:27:18 -0800

>Well I've had the guage cluster out of the 8V for a couple of days to fix
>the oddometer(thanks Foxx in a box and your site).  In it's place I had a
>cluster from my old 16V.  Now the 8V's temp is right around the middle,
>usually over the upper part of the LED.  The old 16V usually ran hot,
>midway between the LED and the top.  So now my temp is reading almost
>midway between the LED and top.  Anyone who had high temp problems ever
>thought to replace the coolant temp guage?  Might be something to check.
>BTW in case anyone thought it was hot out, it was around 25 degrees F.
>
>
>John C. Worden	
>Wayne, Maine
>
>'98 Dakota 4x4-Overdrive is finished
>'86 Scirocco 8V- 
>'81 Scirocco 2.0 16V - Needs an oil pump gear
>
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