'87 GL: I pulled the two under-dash 'crown' ground points to clean and re-set them and this is what I saw:
http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/WiringDamage# <http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/WiringDamage>
I guess I'm just lucky the yellow plastic didn't melt all the way through. Do y'all suppose that corrosion/bad connection was sufficient to create enough resistance to cause that much heat? There is a small battery drain but I'm not aware of any shorts or shorting episodes that would have caused that. Was the fat brown wire connected to the farther crown (I may have pulled it off while I was getting the crowns out)? Where's the other end of that wire?
I may pull and replace the entire thing if I can; there's no telling what other damage it has. Ugly... not good. : (
Cya, Robert |
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