Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:51:01 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: What the heck is this?
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Jack if you were in working in my shop under my direction ..
I 'might' just answer your question ..
but I would also say ..
man ..you sure should be able to figure that one out ..
got yer owner's manual ?
ever fill you washer fluid ?
two good hints right there..
and...really ..that is not the right area at all to be running wires
dash-to-engine.
You follow the factory wiring harness..
which goes out the front 'firewall' near where the speedometer cable goes
though.
remove front grill.
remove left head light bucket,
several grommeted wire harness hoes are there ..
wires are routed through those,
down the left side of the radiator ..
then back ..following stock factory wire bundles..
getting things over the fuel tank is the only area you have to be creative
about ...
if you are leaving the tank in place..and there's a huge tunnel right down
the middle of it .
'do what the manurfacturer did' ...
which is follow the factory-insalled wire bundles.
and how people can just droop wires across engines or wherever..
and not even tie them to, and route them with , already-exisiting wiring
bundles is just totally, totally beyond me.
and............I have seen a 12,000 plus dollar tdi engine conversion ..
with a single wire just drooped across the engine on the way to its
component. Just 'drooped' across.
How does a person do that ???
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:07 PM
Subject: What the heck is this?
> In the driver's side front wheel well is a bulgy-shaped tank of
> translucent white plastic. Looks like something that fell out of a cow's
> nose, if the cow was the size of a house.
>
> There is a tube, or stiff hose, that goes to it, or sorta close to it.
> My son and I found this loose tube today when we were routing wires for
> gauge senders from the engine compartment forward. Can't tell where the
> tube went or if it's just supposed to hang there, open like that.
>
> See photo at
>
> <https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FoRHHsDdb8sM2I7wJ6XxVlJbs0jfqWzYGmp3wNhwT3E?feat=directlink>
>
> What is that tank and what is that tube/hose?
>
> 1984, 1.9L, auto transmission. Shoe size: 10W, favorite color: orange.
>
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel (Jack Elliott)
> '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
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