If you have an 85-87 Wolfy Westy, or any Vanagon with a factory aux battery relay, as well as some Westy fridge relay setups, there is a conflict with the hard start relay. Jay's relay kit explains the fix and includes an extra wire with the correct ends on it that corrects this conflict. At least the kit I got from him did. It is an easy fix. Mark
Thomas Wilsher wrote: > This is a very timely discussion for me, as I'm putting in a hard > start relay right now. This is something I'm just wiring together > myself (wasn't aware of Jay's kit when I started this), but it's > following the WR-1 schematic, which is pretty straightforward. > However, right now the starter solenoid is not disengaging after the > engine starts. After the engine starts I am seeing around 8V on the > starter wire, which evidently wasn't enough to trigger the solenoid > but is sufficient to trigger the hard start relay. > >.................. |
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