VANAGON archives -- July 2013, week 1 (#334)

Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 10:11:03 -0700 Reply-To: neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Was: Home safe but still a question about that FI plug... Now FI Source Comments: To: Bryan Feddish <uprightbassghost@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU162-DS7AFE2EBB85FC9030E1404CE7F0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I haven't read the entire thread, but could a fault (intermittent short?) in the harness cause a FI to fail? Like the short could fry the windings in the FI?

Not to say that there wasn't a QC issue with the FI. Just a "heads up" question of sorts.

Neil.

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Bryan Feddish <uprightbassghost@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good question. I just checked my receipts and that one was from Rock Auto in May 2010.

> It is crazy that it failed.

-- Neil n

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