No problems at all - that is part of the rework I am doing to my '78 Westy. However - - - fuse this new wire near the battery. Many FLAPS offer a new fuse panel for either glass tube fuses or spade fuses for about $9. Then you can locate it near the battery and have the ability to add 6 new fused circuits. At 06:13 PM 5/5/02 -0400, you wrote: >well, after some tinkering around, i plugged the cooler into my wifes S10 >blazer and it worked fine. so still scrathing my head. now i have >isolated it to just my vehicle and not the unit itself. i started to >inspect the cig lighter and noticed that there is a little light connected >to the lighter behind the dashed that i never knew was there. obviously >in the four years that i owned the van it never worked. upon further >inspection of this light there appears to be a female connection at the >end of it and lo and behold no wire connected to it! should ther be? is >this a ground? there is the main wiring harness going to the cig lighter, >about five wires, but no wire going to this little light off the cig >lighter. know with the help of my litle mirror i noticed that there is >metal going from the light to the cig lighter circuit. but there is >definelty a female conection inside the black plastic housing. what a > >also, i thought maybe i could go to radio shack and just buy a cig lighter >female end and just go straight to the battery completely bypasssing the >main circuit board altogether. any foreseen problems with this slolution? >TIA >jason >90gl > > >---------- >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE"> Cookeville, Tennessee ICQ# 5944649 scm9985@tntech.edu '78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion |
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