Date:         Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:03:47 -0500
Reply-To:     Mark A Kippert <vanagon@KIPPERT.COM>
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From:         Mark A Kippert <vanagon@KIPPERT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Burnt Wires!!-Please look and advise
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It sounds like VW made several color changes to those wires. My '86  
had two white wires. As I had explained in an earlier post in this  
thread, I had to cut the harness open several inches back to find good  

wire to splice new wire to.

I looked at Bentley and while 86/87 are white (which mine were), '88  
shows R/W & W/Y wires (page 97.125). 1990 shows the same as '88 (I  
didn't look at other years) on page 97.207. This being said, I'm not  
sure what brown wire Mike is referring to. Of course I'm very new to  
Bentley so am I reading it wrong?

Sorry if I'm confusing things.
-Mark K


On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> Mine were yellow and blue.  I'm sure about the yellow one, but the  
> blue one
> was toast when I saw it so I could be wrong.
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> Robert Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone tell me what the wires that are suppose to connect to the
>>> PS pump look like?
>>>
>>
>> Robert, that wire you found, if it's the right one, is brown and
>> "Originally" came with a 90º female spade connector.
>>
>> The wire you're missing is just another brown wire with a 90º female
>> spade connector that goes from the power steering pump switch to a  

>> good
>> ground.  Replacement spade connectors don't "Have" to be 90º types of
>> course.
>>
>> Mike
>>