I've seen ground wires in that general location on Digijet systems attached to the AFM. Jim -----Original Message----- From: neil n Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:52 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Mysterious loose ground wire It's possible no one answered your last request because you didn't put include the model year, colour of wire, whether or not is has a connector. :) They are .... ? A pic is really handy too though I could be accused of posting too many. ;) The starter body is the negative connection to frame so there isn't a negative wire to the starter. Neil. On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@yahoo.com> wrote: > Does anybody know what that ground wire attached to the coolant hoses on > the passenger side just in front of the firewall goes to? > > --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > > From: Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@YAHOO.COM> > Subject: Mysterious loose ground wire > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 11:02 AM > > > While doing a general tune-up in my van today, I pulled off the air > cleaner and noticed a heavy guage wire haning from just in front of (front > meaning front of van) the firewall where the coolant hoses are mounted. Is > that to ground the starter or what? It seems to have been like that for a > while. > Any thoughts? > Thanks > Steve >
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