Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:29:51 -0800
Reply-To: Jeff Hartman <jeffreyleehartman@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jeff Hartman <jeffreyleehartman@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Where does Hella relay go?
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Thanks so much for the information from all of you. Just wanted you
to know that I did check all the references I had at hand and could
find on the web before putting this question out. I do not take
lightly the amount of time list members donate to helping the
mechanically challenged like me. I did go through every page of the
1986Vanagon/Transporter owners manual. Unless I am missing the
reference, the only information I could find was on page 85 is
regarding the fuse purpose and location...nothing about the relays. I
also checked my bentley, but am afraid mine only goes through 1985 (I
know that is negligent on my part), and the fuse box in my 86 is
entirely different than shown on pg 97.11, but it fits the exact
description provided by Jeff Seaman and Joel Walker. The mystery is
that they describe 6 installed relays in the main fuse/ relay box,
while I have 8. I am starting to wonder if two of these additional
relays are just extras inserted by the PO as spares. I have had this
vanagon since 1995. So I am starting to remove the two screws out of
the fuse box to see those other positions are connected to wiring or
nothing. This vehicle has a lot of things added on to it by the PO who
had it converted by Automotive Services Industries. But I always
assumed the electrical acessories like the furnace were on separately
fused circuits, and did not use anything in the fuse box.
Incidentally, the reason I was distracted from my fuse and relay
cleaning exercise in the first place was that my wife choose that
moment to remind me that I could have turned our vanagon into the cash
for clunkers program, rather than messing with it now. Contrary to
her urging,I rejected that option, because I am sentimental about all
the great family adventures we have had in this vehicle all across BC,
Yukon and Alaska.
Thanks for helping me keep this memory alive. This list is the only
reason I have been able to own this vanagon for over a dozen years.
Jeff Hartman
Juneau, AK
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, neil N<musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jeff
> Hartman<jeffreyleehartman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a humbling question because I have to confess why I do not
>> know where in the front fuse box this relay belongs. I was pulling
>> out fuses and relays to to check the contacts and make sure they are
>> connected securely. I had just started with the left side of the
>> relays when I was distracted. By the time I looked back a couple
>> minutes later I was stumped, because there were three possible
>> locations open for the single relay. The relays in my 86 vanagon are
>> arranged in two rows with 6 locations in each row (one location has no
>> connectors). The top left (position 1) and 2nd one from the left
>> (position 2) and the first from the left in the 2nd row (position 7)
>> are open. This relay fits in any of the slots. While it was out, I
>> checked out the headlights, tail lights signals and brakes. The car
>> started and ran fine. I am stumped This was the first and only
>> relay I had removed, and I stuck it in the 2nd row (position 7).
>> Information on the relay follows:
>> 12 V, 40 A Hella
>> 4RA 909872-01
>>
>> I am hoping it isnt something like a relay for the fan, which would
>> melt my engine on my next ride.
>> Jeff Hartman - Juneau, AK
>> 1986 Vanagon 2.1 2wd manual
>>
>
>
> Would the owners manual shed some light?
>
> If not hopefully an '86 owner will chime in.
>
>
> Neil.
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>
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