Indeed it is brown. Wraps up the front of the L head, under the fuel rails, twists a couple times around that bunch of grounding wires that bolt to the head, then hits a little connector and turns into the blue/black wire. Thanks for the tip. Speaking of tips, ALL the wires look brown with a thin coating of central Oregon dust on them. A bit of Windex (all I had) washes them and the colors pop out. Well, THERE'S your problem. The oil pressure lamp on the dash does not come on because the op switch does not close with no oil pressure. Short that blue/black wire to frame and Hey Presto! the lamp comes on. I gotta pull the tin anyway, wonder what I'll find. Those pressure switches fail much? -- RJS On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:48 -0700, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > it might be brown where it's on the engine. > the left forward cylinder area ..cyl # 3. > Between bell housing and exhaust pipe there .. > you should see a single wire. > Brown there I believe. > turns to blue/black in the electrical junction box. > > scott > www.turbovans.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:11 AM > Subject: Where can this wire be found? > > > > On the watercooled 1.9L ('83, 84) vanagon, can the oil pressure switch > > wire (blue with black stripe, bentley p. 97.56, current track number 29) > > be accessed from the top of the engine compartment, and if so, where the > > dickens is it? > > > > > > -- > > Rocky J Squirrel > > (Whose sig could mention that he hates climbing under the van, but > > doesn't) > |
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