Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:49:32 -0600
Reply-To: Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Electrical Cheat Sheet For Vanagon Dummies?
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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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