Art, I wrote a few months ago about the issues I've had with my 1990 240 wagon. At that time, I could tap the plastic outside the gauge and it would go down. The most recent few days, it wouldn't tap down, and it had never gone so far up to the orange. Since having the radiator drained and refilled, I can at least tap back down the gauge.

I keep wondering if I don't need a whole instrument cluster or something (like the whole thing that's in the pictures you linked to). My fuel gauge is dropped to the bottom, the odometer doesn't work, the trip meter doesn't work, and my speedometer needle sometimes is erratic. My windshield wipers move slowly (AND I replaced the wiper motor, which didn't fix it). The wipers will swipe for a few minutes, then they stop. My automatic door locks recently stopped working. The inside center panel lights (where the heater panel is) don't work. My interior light on the ceiling stopped working, too. More or less, slowly everything seems to be cutting out on me, and I don't know why.

The odometer stopped at 208,099 in November. I've probably put a few thousand miles on it since then with my drives to Hunt Valley. All of these things have been slowly stopping since last year. Could it just be that the car is old and everything's going out on it, or could it be a board somewhere that's shutting down slowly? I don't know what could go out next.

As for the radiator, I'm hoping that water is circulating and that it would be shown by how the full radiator is warm after driving. As said, when that gauge was all the way to orange, and with driving a full 35 or so miles at 65 mph, it didn't seem normal that the radiator would be cool to the touch when I'd get home. After having the radiator drained today and refilled, I drove around for a little bit, but the entire radiator was warm.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have to work so much that I could take time to learn to enjoy working on my car!