Great idea-a cheat sheet for dummies to carry on the road? VanagonWiki article? Someone? Mr. BZ-I'd print one to go w/ my heater activation lever sheet
On Jul 14, 2008, at 8:16 PM, mdrillock wrote: > In my experience there are only a handful of common electrical > failures > on Vanagons. Ok, maybe 2 handfuls. I guess someone should compile a > list > along with a quick check for determining if a given problem a Vanagon > owner has is due to one of the common ones like yours was. > > Mark > > > > > Paul Connelly wrote: >> Thanks for the help guys, >> >> I will try to get around to changing them all over at some point, >> Scott. For the moment I took the connectors all off and the Multi >> Point Grounds out cleaned everything up and tightened all of the >> spades and reconnected everything. Fan now works perfectly on low and >> high! >> >> Still no head lights but that's a job for tomorrow.... >> >> Have a great evening, >> >> Cheers, Paul. >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans >> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com <mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com>> wrote: >> >> if you are talking about that multi-ground point with push-on >> spade terminals........... >> way mo betta to convert them to screw and eye grounding terminals. >> Be sure to put a star type pointy washer betwixt the wire terminal >> and the body of the van. >> scott >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Connelly" >> <vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM >> <mailto:vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM>> >> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>> >> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:43 PM >> Subject: Re: Radiator Fan Resistor Question >> >> >> >> Hey Mark, >> >> You're right - had to crimp up a jumper wire, but using a >> parallel ground >> turned the fan. So bad earth - looks like it is the furthest >> away of the >> second ground post behind the fuse panel, Maybe that's the >> headlight issue >> too - I guess its time to take them all off clean them up and >> re apply. I >> did try each crimp terminal with a meter to a separate ground >> earlier, and >> didn't see any problems, but I guess its there... Well - >> that's the next >> couple of hours... >> >> Thanks Again, >> >> Paul. >> >> Could they make it any tighter to get in there!!! >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:03 PM, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net >> <mailto:mdrillock@cox.net>> wrote: >> >> What you just wrote suggests the bad ground for the fan as >> I mentioned at >> the end of my reply. Either that or you have multiple >> problems. The ground >> can be intermittent.............. >> >> >> >> ....... >> >> >> >> Another common failure point is the ground lug for >> the brown wire coming >> from the fan. It plugs into the grounding star >> behind the main relay >> panel. >> Many grounds plug in there and corrosion is a >> major issue on them. >> >> >> Mark >> |
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