Date:         Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:52:04 -0600
Reply-To:     "Mark B. Magee" <condor2@FLASH.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Mark B. Magee" <condor2@FLASH.NET>
Subject:      Was; SOS: 87 GL All Electrical Died: Solved
Comments: cc: Kenny & Lee Ann Crabtree <paint@swbell.net>
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Volks,
Thanks all who offered solutions, this is a wierd one.
I just sold this 87 GL to a good friend (Quantum owner, but never
Vanagons) on Wednesday. Then this... He didn't know where the battery
was, I told him then flew the SOS to the List.
I just got a call, the battery had somehow shorted itself out -on the
battery tray lid! When I bought the Van 4 years ago, I had always
wondered why PO had put a rubber flower, literally some bathroom thingy
that kept the positive terminal from contacting the battery tray lid,
somehow this fell off and bamo, the pos and neg terminals hit the lid
simultaneousely long enough to short the batt.
Lesson learned, when purchasing aftermarket batteries that don't spec
out to what VW put in originally, if the battery is too tall in it's
case dimensions, THIS CAN CAUSE A PROBLEM!!!
No other fuses blown, and all works great now.
Thanks again
Regards
Mark Magee
90 Carat
87 GL now happily remarried
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