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Date:         Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:37:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: "Grounds" for Vanagon divorce?
Comments: To: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <c4e7c5f90704091719t6ad5c8dfieb119b006730b871@mail.gmail.com>
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Us happy for you.

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR

neil typed: > Hi all. > > All this talk of grounds recently. Well... > > Did a pile of work to van. Redisigned some stuff, pedal cluster > bushings, etc. etc. Anyone who has been really bored lately might have > noticed the many postings I have made. Anyhow... > > Got the dash back on, cluster on, and it fired right up! Fan worked, > newly designed foot flap works. Air recirc seems to work and stock > vent controls seal WAY better. Me real happy. Then..... > > I turn on headlights. Yellow HB ind. stays on, green (sig) ind. > faint...... with van off and turn signal on, yellow and green flash > alternately. > > Me real sad. Me want divorce. So...... > > I almost posted a long question yapping about pin 53b missing on wiper > switch etc. Big theories about an intermittent connection on pin 53b > while testing new wiper motor, green and yellow lights flashing, black > holes,...... thought better of that and while following another wire, > I found .......wait for it...... > > an unplugged ground! > > Previously I had dutifully cleaned the two ground-stars on d-side > where a bunch of grounds meet. I neglected to put one back on. All > good now. > > Me happy! > > (btw,there is no pin 53b on the connector on the female socket to > wiper motor switch on my van) > > Bottom line: > > for those hesitant to study wiring diagrams, (as I was) do it anyways. > > It eventually sinks in. > > i.e. > > I didn't know where the female mini spade on brown wire from pin 31 on > rear defrost connected. I tried to follow it, but lost it. I read > Bentley, again, saw that it ended at "68" looked up "68" (though hard > to read in my copy) saw that "68" was within current track of 61-69: > emergency flasher switch. Found tiny connector, plugged in, and now > dispaly light works on flasher. > > Duh. > > Cheers, > > Neil. > > > > > -- > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil >


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