Date:         Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:00:54 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: '86 Westy cranking trouble
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
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Neat trick.

I'll have to remember that one!

Neil.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:

>  I would at least
>  check the connection inside the wiring box on the firewall. The black
>  wire from the key should have a splice in there that you can find. Find
>  it and use the hat pin trick to see if that is where your problem in.
>  The hat pin is used to poke through the wire insulation to inner metal
>  wire on each side of the connector to check if the voltage is the same
>  on both sides. It is isn't then the connection is the problem.
>
>  Mark
>
>
>
>
>
>  Dan Hall wrote:
>
> > On Apr I bought the van from the original owner in 1993---had around
> > 60,000 miles on it.
> > Now almost 270,000 miles.
> >
> > Since I've been informed that the circuit to the coil is unfused, and
> > to save tracing this wire all the way back to the ignition switch,
> > trying to find the source of the resistance, could I not just use the
> > original wire to trigger a new relay to the coil, the relay getting
> > power off the hot post in that junction box on the firewall?
> > Could even install fuse to protect the system better.
> >
> > Thoughts?