Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:32:37 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject: Re: ... & Head Question. (Virtual Friday)
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Darn Karl, don't you think you need the other end of the newt? And
shouldn't they be reversed, eye in the rear, rear in the front to reverse
polarity? Or did I misremember my Elements of Elementary Alimentary
Alchemy?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: ... & Head Question. (Virtual Friday)
> You DO NOT know what you are doing!!!!
>
> You forgot the eye of newt in the glovebox.
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tim vb-o'brien" <vbob@PRIMENET.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: ... & Head Question. (Virtual Friday)
>
>
> > > P.S. I was told (two years ago) that the head problems that develop
are
> > > caused by a mismatch of electricity being used i.e. 13 volts in the
> front &
> > > 12 in the back (or something like that) & the extra volt being carried
> in
> > > the coolant, which pits the heads...has anyone else heard this, or how
> to
> > > remedy it??
> > > Amanda
> > >
> >
> > Now I will admit I slept through a lot of Elements of Electrical
> > Engineering (I am a computer engineer) but I wish I had known about the
> > "VW directional exclusion zone electrical differential". I would wonder
> > if you drove the van backwards, would the back use 13 volts and the
> > front 12? Is it a flow problem from the battery? And what about that
> > silly thingamabob sitting on the motor putting out at least 13.7 volts
> > or so? My best guess is East Coast Vans, with the seam rust, build up
> > resistance so the flow of electrons is inhibited through the body ground
> > plane at those points. Have you felt all the seams when you stop and see
> > if there is heat buildup from the resistance?
> >
> > So... the solution....
> >
> > Take 10 gauge single strand wire and run at least 10 of these wires from
> > the front bumper mounts to the rear bumper mouns, using shiney new steel
> > (not stainless) 8mm bolts and used crushed copper oil gaskets as
> > washers. Then in the rear only, bolt a zinc anoid (available at any
> > marine shop) to the the bumper and have it hang out at least 3 7/8
> > inches (or 86 mm). The best ones to use are the ones shaped like little
> > propellers that will revolve in the wind and let the air take the
> > excess electrons off in the windstream.
> >
> > Good luck...
> >
> > And Eric, of course I know what I am doing...
> >
> >
> > tim
> >
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