On 3/11/08, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote: > I had to bend and flex the tracks quite a bit to wrestle mine out, Ben. > Even then, it was tough. > I couldn't see any way not to............. > > Mike B.
Thanks, Mike. I will just have to try to wrestle it out. My tracks seem ok that is why I want to yank out just the motor. Jim Felder gave me the magic word to narrow my search. Once I ;lugged in his name I got this: http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0601b&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=24109 He took his tracks out so most will not apply to me. I have the motor accessible by hand now so just a question of twisting it out. On another matter, I noticed that every article I found on my search mentioned having to re-use the old harness to hook-up to the new motor. My replacement motor was in a Golf/Jetta rail so part of the Golf harness is still there. I don't see why I can't just splice the pigtail from the Golf into the Vanagon connector. If I'm careful I can have both pigtails in place in my van so that if a replacement is needed again, I can use either Vanagon or Golf without messing around with soldering again and again. Simply put I will have a horse shoe shaped connector as stock in Vanagon and square connector like the Golf. I use whatever future replacement motors require. I'm thinking the only reason VW used the horseshaped connector is to differentiate it from the powermirror harness. It's a two wire deal. Now it's time for my wrestling lesson. Thanks guys.
BenT |
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