John; Most FLAPs have a roll-around diagnostics cart with equipment to test the battery/starter/charger system. They successfully diagnosed the cause of this problem on our 85. I doubled the line between the alternator and starter to reduce voltage loss to the battery. Now I take my vehicles, once a year, to a shop that only sells batteries. They are more than happy to check and fill the battery. Yes, to my surprise these batteries need water. I now also buy all my batteries from them. Drive Safely & Happy Holidays Ken Lewis <Kernersville,NC> 86 VW crewcab;60 356B Coupe -------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:45:44 EST John Branstrom <Syncro86VW@AOL.COM> writes: >Yesterday even with the temp in single digits my 86 syncro still >turned over >very slowly when trying to restart it after it had been shut off just >a >minutes earlier. Just wondering what causes this? > >I've had 3 Vanagons 2 air-cooled and the water cooled syncro. This >has been >a chronic problem on all 3. Is this just the nature of the beast or >can this >be remedied (replacing starter never made much difference). > >Blitz ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. |
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