Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:02:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Skip Emmert-Keaton <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Skip Emmert-Keaton <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
Subject:      Newbie Question Flood - Hot start
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Whew!  Tired of me yet?  I feel like a 3 year-old.  Mommy, what's that funny
thing on the Westy?

Here's the big one.  The van has two batteries with a selector switch.
"Battery 1" and "All" will not turn over the starter.  "Battery 2" will
start the engine ... sometimes.  Driving around town is no problem, but
coming in off the highway the van will not start.  No action from the
starter at all.  No clicking.  Nothing.  Sit down and eat dinner and go back
out and try again in an hour and it will start.  There has been one occasion
when I got the no start when the engine was cold, too.  Half-an-hour later,
it fired right up.  PO replaced the alternator, one battery, and starter
recently.  Also has new plugs and plug wires.

Sorry I don't have a pic of us watching the Westy cool.


Thanks for any help and thanks so much for your patience as I get my feet
under me,

Skip Emmert-Keaton
1980 Westy <unnamed>