[Vwdiesel] Temp light blinking-engine cold !

[Mike & Coreen Smith]

I put a liter or so of coolant in this morning before starting.   Temp guage
and light were working fine (no blinking, and after a 5km run through the
hills around here the guage was nearly mid scale.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
NB
Canada
E6L 1T1
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Beth and Chris Geiser" <geiser at execpc.com>
To: "'Mike & Coreen Smith'" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] Temp light blinking-engine cold !


> Mike,
>
> Usually means the coolant is low or there's a short in your temp gauge
> wiring somewhere.  With what you've all done in the past week or two, my
> guess would be low coolant.  The temp gauge is wired to go completely to
the
> hot side whenever the warning light flashes (I guess just to make SURE
they
> get your attention).  Never made sense to me - at a time when the coolant
> light is flashing is exactly the time you'd really like to know your
engine
> temp!!  German engineering...
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike & Coreen Smith
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:29 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Temp light blinking-engine cold !
>
> OK....went out to see if my 86 Golf would start after initially being
warmed
> up, then parked for 5 hours.
> OUtside temp -15*C........remarkable, but it started rather easily.  This
> morning @ -25*C there was no
> chance whatsoever.  Guess it must've still been a tad bit "warm"........?
>
> Problem is....when I revved it up to past 1500rpm (guessing, I have no
tach)
> the temp light started
> blinking and the guage gradually (10 seconds ot so) went over to
> "hot".........
>
> I restarted the car (a few times), and with the engine idling along @
maybe
> 700rpm, the ignition/charge light was on (I think this is normal) and the
> temp light was NOT blinking.  Yet, a few seconds after that initial REV,
(I
> presume to give the field windings in the alternator a self-charge) the
temp
> light once again began blinking, and the guage went over hard to HOT.  I
> just let the car run a couple times, 30 seconds each time, in case by some
> weird quirk the guage was somehow telling me something.
>
> That being said, there is one wire off broken on my alternator........a
> small red one.......I think runs the shifter light.  (yet, it's been like
> this since a week or so ago......temp guage always acted normal)
>
> I also just changed out the heater core, so it MAY be down a bit on
> fluid....yet I've test driven the car a few times, 5 kms at a
time......but
> to overtemp within just a few seconds? After being shut off for 5
> hours........ Doesn't seem possible?!
>
> Ideas?  Another wire broken off?  No antifreeze flow across a sensor
maybe?
> What's with the guage/light being "OK" before alternator emitting current.
> What am I not seeing?
>
> TIA,
> Mike in NB
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
> 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
> NB
> Canada
> E6L 1T1
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