hello again, and thank you all for the tips...someone
sent me an electrical schematic of the radiator
fan&switch that is way easier to use than tracing it
out of the Bentley wiring diagrams...I'm wondering
what book it came from.

for my  starter, someone suggested checking for twelve
volts being supplied to it, and I will, but with the
way using the hammer to persuade it always works, I'm
fairly sure it is something sticking inside the
starter. but for right now, my starter seems not to be
sticking today or yesterday, so now seems to be the
time to look into the "hot-start relay", before I put
in my new rebuild. is there an article on this already
on-line somewhere? I've browsed the vanagon.com web
pages and can't get at the mailing-list file-archive
right now. (I could really use that article on oil
additives too). but where can I find this hot-start
relay? my local auto-electric shop can get any Bosch
part if I have the #.

many people reported that their fuel sending unit is
similarly flaky as mine appears to be, so I'll just be
writing down the mileage quite carefully for awhile.
in the long run I'll be pulling the tank from the
junkyard, cleaning and re-sealing if necessary, and
putting in a new sending unit, and installing in the
Westy. it's good to be writing down the mileage, as it
seems the simplest way to monitor performance while I
worry about that one cylinder with some compression
loss...

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