Date:         Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:14:57 -0500
Reply-To:     EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From:         EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: '80 vanagon fire!!
Comments: To: Troy Crivellone <cherrydad@HOTMAIL.COM>
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    Right .......And we are all laughing to! Aren't those neon sticks
great. If you were my kid I would ring your....


            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler


On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Troy Crivellone wrote:

> I own a '80 vanagon camper.  I installed a neon stick shift knob.  Today i
> don't have it on there b/c somewhere along the line it caught fire and i had
> to almost jump out of it while it was in netural and still rolling.  My dad
> and I spent about a hour and half, trying to figure out why the headlights
> weren't going off.  Well it seems as if i had attached the neon knob power
> cable to an one exposed end of the headlight wiring harness.  The fire tore
> through the wire and up all the way from the stick shift to the switch on
> the dash.  My friend and i laughed alot.  ANyways we found out that it had
> welded half the wiring to a side wall of the dash.  Wires were exposed all
> over the place.  We split the wires and after that icky task we found that
> every wire caseing had burnt off in several places.  So we split them more
> and wrapped each one with black electrical tape.  It was fun.  The only
> problem now is that the EGR light won't go off and the battery light won't
> go on when i start it like it always did.  The EGR light wasn't on before
> and the battery light worked before.  All in all it was an educating
> experience.  You should try it.  I also found a splitter wire at the base of
> the headlight switch that when an accesory is pluged into it, it only turns
> on when the headlights are turned on.  So something that shows in the dark
> only, like a light or something could be pluged in and always turned off
> with your headlights.  neato.    o tay bye bye.   i'll write back later,
> with another installment of the Vanagon Fire Chronicals.
>
> Troy C
> '80 Vanagon Camper  "Baby BLue Eyes"  (she's baby blue)
>
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