Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:50:18 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Total Mystification!
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wiggle the fuses while things turned on.
on the early style fuses, used up through 85 ..
that ceramic bar with the fuse material on the side of it..
those can never 'just sit there' for 25 years and still make contact.
They get corrosion on the ends.
Very commonly they don't conduct where they contact their tabs on the engine
..
two things fix that ..
one is twist and wiggle the fuses anytime you are looking at them almost.
the other is a spray of WD-40 to remove and prevent corrosion.
I don't keep the clear plastic cover on them either ..
I've seen moisture condense in there .
I've seen rain water that leaked in collect in there..
how cute ..that cover half full of rusty water !
it's another of those 'services' that is not outlined anywhere for
vanagons..
there are dozens, even a hundred or more spots on vanagons that just love
some attention, some corrosion treatment and prevention, and lubrication
....that are not listed anywhere as normal service procedures ..
and no one is going to do it, unless you do.
yeah...there is no Fuse Box Corrosion Treatment Fairy that comes at night
while you sleep to treat them. Someone has too.
I've yet to see any shop that can do smart little things like that.
It's nice to have a tiny round-nosed brush to clean inside the ends of the
tabs here the fuses engage too.
I get a 'new' vanagon ....it immediately needs treating in about 300 spots
on it ...that no one ever does, near as I can tell. They are so nice and
smooth working after that !
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@SHAW.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Total Mystification!
> one thing to check, which I discovered yesterday while working on a
> friends van, is the fit of the fuses in the slot. We found it to be a
> good fuse, but it was making only intermittent contact so that after I
> worked on his fuse panel, adding new wires, the wipers would not work.
> Took a few puzzled minutes until I swapped in a different fuse and the
> wipers worked.
>
> long shot but worth a try. wiggle the fuses while things turned on.
>
> alistair
>
> On 11-Apr-11, at 1:38 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
>
>> OK, I'm still banging my head against this wiper/horn thing and though
>> I thought I had it resolved. I do not. Not only did changing out the
>> ignition switch for a new one, the end result was....Nada. They still
>> don't work but intermittently, AND to add woe to worry, now the heater
>> fans do not work. They too follow the same intermittent pattern. With
>> the new switch, jiggling it doesn't work. Not only that, the horn
>> blows
>> when I turn the steering wheel.
>>
>> HELP!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>> --
>> John Rodgers
>> Clayartist and Moldmaker
>> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
>> Chelsea, AL
>> Http://www.moldhaus.com
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