Date:         Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:19:42 -0400
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      running new wires in weird places,
              was: More light for rear interior
Comments: To: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>

Mr. Davidson wrote:
This is not easy it involves taking off the headliner and the air channel
and lots of fishing of wires.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A neat trick for running wires...use a "mouse". No, not a rodent, and not a
computer peripheral.

Many hardware and electrical-supply places sell the type of mouse I speak
of, or you can make your own. It is a small Styrofoam ball, about the size
of a large marble. You tie some mono-filament fishing line to the mouse
securely, or use a drop of glue. It you don't have Styrofoam, a wad of
tissue wrapped in Scotch tape works semi-satisfactorily.

Insert the mouse with thread attached into the start of your wire run. At
the other end of your wire run, attach the hose of your shop vacuum, or go
to the local U-Brush-em car wash, and use the vac there. If there are
places along the wire run that leak air, block them with type, etc. so the
vacuum pulls the mouse through. TA-DA!

Use the fishing line to pull the wire through. Enjoy.
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
Cary, North Carolina, USA
www.bulley-hewlett.com
phone: 888.468.4880 (tollfree)


-----Original Message-----
From:   Davidson [SMTP:wdavidson@THEGRID.NET]
Sent:   Monday, April 05, 1999 8:56 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: More light for rear interior

There are many 12 volt lighting fixtures to choose from at the RV stores.
As for routing the wires, if you want to hide I can think of two routes:
1) via the passenger side B post (I think that's what its called... hollow
channel that goes from behind the glove box up and over the passenger door)
and through the air channel above the slider door (on the Westy.... I don't
know if yours is a Westy or not.... Dang I wish people would remember to
post their vehicle year and model!). This is not easy it involves taking
off
the headliner and the air channel and lots of fishing of wires.
2) Again, if its a westy you could bring power from behind the fridge,
rearward through the water tank and clothes cabinets and then over to the
passenger side following the speaker wires through the air-conditioning
cabinet (if you have air conditioning).

Let us know your year and model,
Good Luck,
Bill
90 Westy Syncro
-----Original Message-----
From: Elkavitch, Michael and Diana <elks@TOP.MONAD.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON).COM>
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 4:01 PM
Subject: More light for rear interior


>Well, it is getting close to the time that Siegfried will carry us on
>vacation. I would like to add a reading light on the passenger side rear.
>Any thoughts on what/where to get one and the best way to install it? TIA
>        Mike
>