Date:         Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:15:05 -0700
Reply-To:     HotelWestfalia <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From:         HotelWestfalia <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject:      Re: Something wrong ...
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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Apologies, the car is 1984 June Vanagon camper.  The direct wire seems to
work but I'm worried, I may have excluded something that way.
Zoltan

-----Original Message-----
From: mark drillock
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 2:25 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Something wrong ...

You forgot to mention what year it is and the wiring from the alternator
to the battery changed a bit over time. For WBX vans it never is a
direct wire, it always makes a few stops or detours, depending on the
year. At the battery end the charging wire is the large battery cable
from the starter to the battery. The large cable is the starting cable
during starting and then it becomes the charging cable after the engine
is running.

Mark



HotelWestfalia wrote:
> It’s about the charging to the battery from the alternator.
>
> 13.9 comes to the battery from the alt.
> but when that wire is connected to the battery, it shows only 12.5 and
> slowly less and less as the engine is running until 11.95.
>
> one funny thing I found; when I check the continuity of the other red wire
> (not the one from the alt.)  to the ground, it beeps for a second, no
> more.
>
> I don’t know what to check, where the juice is leaking to.  We have gone
> through two alternators, three new batteries.
>
> I even made a new set of wires from the alt. to the battery direct.  Not
> sure, it’s the right thing.  Looking in the Bentley it seems to be direct,
> but I can be ‘wong’ again.  The alt. wires go into a loom and I don’t know
> if they do anything else other than coming out at the battery.
>
> Anyone’s help would be appreciated.
>
> Zoltan
>


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