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<DIV>In a message dated 3/22/2013 10:52:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jadney@vwtype3.org writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>I've never had a temp gauge, and never missed it. I've always found
<BR>the sound of the engine, coupled with the situation we were in, was
<BR>able to tell me how it was doing.<BR><BR>I DID have an oil pressure gauge
for awhile, but in the long run that <BR>just seemed to cause me unnecessary
worry, since it always read lower <BR>than I thought it should. The engine,
however, never minded.</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>And your neck never got sore from bending your head over to see
what the gauge was reading either. ;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>VW never installed those gauges, for fear that owners would worry
too much about them.</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial>It's like I told Joe, when my engine seized in the garage (from a
lack of oil pressure), the engine never got hot, and had only ran maybe a
minute. That meant, IF there was a gauge, it wouldn't have shown a temp
problem. Now an oil problem may have shown, but it had already starved the #1
bearing.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Bob 65
Notch S w/Sunroof and IRS aka Krusty<BR>64 T-34 Ghia aka Wolfie<BR>71
Square-vert under
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