Date:         Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:24:56 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Bentley wiring diagram. Questions on how to read.
Comments: To: Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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  All this isn't so difficult if you attended the VW factory training
electrical school, like I did.  They take the time to explain all of this
stuff that seems so confusing to the 'un-enlightened'.  As has been said,
it's not that hard to grasp and use, once you've been shown how.  But the
'old' wiring diagrams that showed a schematic layout as close as possible to
the actual shape of the vehicle, with all of the components drawn in thier
usual locations, is definitely easier to follow for the layman, but more
'spaghetti-like', as John Muir said in the Idiot manual.
  I can offer my assistance to help anyone with this electrical info,
including wiring diagrams, schematics, troubleshooting techniques, DIN
codes, old-to-new DIN crossover charts, and many years of hands-on
experience with practically all VW's from old to new.  Just pmail me with
requests.  I have tons of data on my computer that I can send as an email
attachment.

Mike B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike S" <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: Bentley wiring diagram. Questions on how to read.


> At 01:10 AM 2/24/2008, neil N wrote...
>>It was the track numbers at the end of certain wires at the bottom of
>>the diagrams that was confusing me. Track number reference 69, is at
>>end of a wire connected to S18. But when I turn the page and look at
>>the end of wire from 69, it says 57. But one ignores that and looks up
>>to the fuel pump and finds 42. Find 42 at bottom of previous diagram,
>>ignore what we see at the end of *that* wire (which was the extra
>>ground I was seeing) and look up to
>>end of the original wire from S18, and see 69. I get it.
>
> The track numbers are associated with the whole vertical "column," not
> the end of the wire at the bottom. You're not really ignoring anything,
> because the current track number isn't associated with "*that* wire,"
> as you describe it. The numbers in the boxes tell you where a wire
> connects to...the track numbers are only a reference to where that
> connection can be found (like a page number).