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• Re: unexplained power loss - help!
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:19:38 -0400
  ...I put my old wires back on those two (keeping the other old wires as spares) and all has been well since. Mike
• Re: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:05:47 -0400
  ...did you cut the wires into individual wires? Sounds like the designer of the kit doesn't want the headlight grounds served by double...
• Re: Go Westy tune up kit
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Dann
  Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:23:15 -0800
  I bought one of the Go Westy tune up kits a few months back and replaced the cap/wires/etc. two weeks ago when...
• Fwd: Oil buzzer won't stop
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:24:00 -0400
  ...The wires’ ends are new. I have renewed most of the > two wires. > The 0.8 bar sender’s wire goes to the yellow...
• Re: High resistance causing no spark?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:32:13 -0500
  Mike Jeffrey wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm getting no spark at any of the plug wires... I tested the lead >from the coil to...
• Headlight dimmer
  Historical mailing list - Sideshow Bob
  Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:40:40 -0400 (EDT)
  ...there are two wires coming from the switch one brn one brn-wht, the circuit diagram shows them connecting to the dimmer relay. i...
• Re: 84 Vanagon misfiring after overnights
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:47:06 EDT
  Possible that it is spark plug wires. I have heard that you Maine-iacs have been getting some wet weather lately. If this problem...
• Re: Power loss still in '85
  Historical mailing list - Allan Bagley
  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:57:35 -0800
  >>plug wires Worth looking in engine compartment with engine running in the dark of night. I have seen all kinds of unusual steady and...
• Front Speakers Re-wiring - '85 Westy
  Historical mailing list - MMunn
  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:40:13 -0800
  ...Can I simple pull news wires through the sheaths and up into the dash by tying the old wires to the new, and then...
• Re: Blinking lights after ground fix
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:42:08 -0500
  ...It only takes a minute or two to add another ground to the two brown wires to the connector. That one will really mess...
• Re: Urgent: NEED HELP, Weird Van Thing
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby
  Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:29:58 -0400
  ...Checked 02 sensor wires, look OK, I think when I put the cat back on I kinda smooshed some of the wires coming out...
• Re: Aux Oil temp gauge wiring
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:30:03 -0400
  Run the wires up behind the left side headlamps. Then you can sneak them through on of the grommets for the multiple wiring harnesses...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:53:06 -0600
  ...Al Brase mark drillock wrote: > The wires at the front left turn/park light socket. > There are 3 wires there, plugged onto 3 separate...
• Re: Bus Depot auxillary battery hook up kit #1738-cant figure it out
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:40:49 -0400
  I got the auxillary battery installed, without explosion.Hope it works ok.The hardest part was accepting the premise that 2 skinny wires are...
• Re: WTB Knarly Spark Plug Wire Set
  Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
  Sun, 19 Oct 1997 01:26:29 EDT
  Mark - In my experience and in my opinion, Ignition Wires should be replaced on the average of every 5 years, because of wear from...
• Re: Window tinting
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Thu, 2 Feb 1995 14:46:54 -0800 (PST)
  ...Will removing the existing > film there damage the rear-window defogger? Is it made from > wires in the glass or conductive paint? Should I...
• Re: 87 Misfires when damp
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:08:28 -0400
  ...If you have the cash buy oem plug wires and change the plugs too. Coil would be the next thing after that. If you...
• Aux Oil temp gauge wiring
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:17:51 -0600
  ...I've got everything ready to go but after routing one of the wires from the engine to the front, I ran into just...
• Re: High resistance causing no spark?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:36:30 -0700
  Use one of the spark plug wires in the coil, with a spark plug in the end, metal of the plug touching metal on...
• Re: Broken Ground?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:20:55 -0800
  ...Red wires are usually 12 volt + Ground wires are usually brown or black. You can use a volt meter on the wire to confirm...
• Re: Burnt Wires!!-Please look and advise
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:36:25 -0500
  ...This puts a short across the twelve volts and burns up the wires. Ken Lewis http://neksiwel.20m.com/ in statu viae ------------------------------------------------------------ + To unsubscribe...
• Re: fuel cutout
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:58 -0800
  ...Seated properly? Are connections clean? > wires/connectors from any engine sensors > wires/connectors at fuel pump > wires/connectors at fuel pump and/or power...
• Re: How To Make New Battery To Starter Cable for 2.1 Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:53:15 -0500
  And don't forget the grounds! They are just as important as the power wires, the yin to their yang as it were. Although...
• Re: '83 wasserboxer wiring harness melted!
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:01:00 -0600
  --------------------------- Hi Volks, Also be aware there is no fuse for any of the fuel injector wires, the coil, ecu, O2 sensor, idle stabilizer, fuel...
• Re: '83 wasserboxer wiring harness melted!
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:12:16 -0600
  ...it seems that the fuel injector wires on that side of the engine can get pinched between the air filter box (the black plastic...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:55:40 GMT
  Eric; Swap 3 & 4 spark plug wires then repeat your test. If #3 now has no effect on rpm the wires are bad. If...
• GoWesty extra battery kit
  Historical mailing list - Gregor Brandt
  Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:35:15 -0600
  ...B11 has two small wires coming out of it and is easy to spot. Is B12 the thick red wire very close to the...
• Re: Engine Miss
  Historical mailing list - 1speedsteed
  Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:20:24 -0700
  I'm on my 3rd set of Bosch wires in 4 months. The first set developed a hole near the end and eventually blew...
• Re: Radio Speakers
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:23:37 -0700
  ...What kind of radio? How are they wired? I had to rewire my rear speakers to include two ground wires (one for each speaker...
• Re: 84 Vanagon misfiring after overnights
  Historical mailing list - John P. Flaherty
  Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:49:55 -0400
  ...Most suggested ignition (plugs, rotor, cap, wires). I haven't had time to work on it this weekend but I plan to soon. Will...
• Fridge Burned fuse & switch
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:15:52 -0700
  ...The wires for the AC and the Propane look OK. Can someone please point me in the right diagnostic direction as to what may...
• Re: Radio and Speaker Insall
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:02:41 -0500
  ...The new radio has separate ground wires for each >rear speaker, the old one didn't. No place to match up and connect the...
• Re: Stereo install-- prevent a fire please
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:39:47 EDT
  ...Way too many people spend way too much money on big speaker wires, thinking that there somehow produce better sound. A friend did a...
• Re: Reverse Lights
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 12 May 2006 17:38:51 -0400
  Those 2 wires plug onto the terminals of the backup light switch. If the lights are staying on, then the switch isn't returning...
• Re: spark plug upgrades.....3 electrode for 1.9L and 4 electrode for 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:25:41 -0600
  ...It depends on whether the plug wires require attatchment to the metal bulb of the plug, or the little screw atop the plug. You...
• 1.9L spark plug wires; Bosch/Beru content
  Historical mailing list - Brian Jarvinen
  Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:36:55 -0800
  ...One explanation I discovered on Bus Depot's site - some Bosch wires are now made in Mexico. This explained a lot, I thought, considering...
• How to Connect Trailer Lights
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:20:16 -0500
  ...remove left taillight, pull back connector's boot, and connect wires from kit to proper wires on tailight. 3. Remove right tailight, and just...
• stereo speaker wire colors?
  Historical mailing list - Jesse Reynolds
  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:15:16 -0700
  ...4 speakers = 8 wires. If the rear uses a common ground, that is 7 wires. But there are 6 wires not including the loose...
• Wire harness grommet at Firewall
  Historical mailing list - Bruno Walser
  Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:56:47 -0400
  ...I installed the new wire harness and added various additional wires such as the wires to the solar panels. The new ECU is located...
• Re: Cables - front to rear
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:09:30 -0500
  ...That way I could tell the wires apart at both ends. Snaked both > runs in some moderately size heat shrink tubing, and then wound...
• Re: Power window question...
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 9 May 2000 11:47:23 EDT
  ...However your problem could be the switch ($35 from me) or you could have broken wires in the rubber boot that goes from the...
• Re: High resistance causing no spark?
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:25:17 -0400
  Doubtful if all plug wires would go bad at same time. How old are wires? What does inside of distributor cap look like? Is...
• Re: How to remove wires from headlight switch plug?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:40:15 -0700
  ...Removing wires from plug I don't usually post if I don't have the exact answer, exception here. Neil's suggestion works. But...
• Vanagon Sparkplugs Wires
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 2 Sep 1995 13:06:15 -0400
  ...Is there a special way to get the sparkplug wires off? Just pulling like on the '72 doesn't seem to work. Please help...
• Help! Pwr. Mirrors PITA!!
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  02 Jan 97 16:30:42 EST
  ...Grrrr.....I'm ready to cut the wires........ :<( help! chris
• Re: Electrical question - '85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sun, 29 Jun 2003 02:50:53 -0400
  > There's a small electrical box of some type under the drivers seat in my van > with several terminals where wires coming from a...
• Re: OXY sensor Help!!
  Historical mailing list - Antaki
  Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:08:40 -0800
  The Oxy sensor is heated, and the two white wires connect to the heating circuit; it does not seem to matter which way they...
• Re: Running Trouble
  Historical mailing list - Scott D Foss
  Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:10:59 -0800
  ...I never bother to ohm check plug wires anymore. If they are very old, like over 5 years, they are suspect. if they are...
• 86 Camper Engine Elect Problem..Help
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:11:32 -0800
  ...One time got a real shorting condition..looked like a xmas tree with shorting along sparkplug wires. Fix attempts: *steam cleaned engine to eliminate...
• Stereo Installation question: 83 Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Rio Rafael
  Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:15:30 -0700
  ...The new unit has the following wires for the speaker system: A +, front right B -, front right C +, f left D -, f left E...
• Re: radio interference
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:40:57 -0800
  ...When I looked behind the glove box the speaker wire is bundled > with all the other wires. Speaker wires are unshielded. There doesn't...
• Re: Loss of power - super hot muffler
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:23:02 -0800
  ...The point of swapping wires is to see if the problem follows the wires or not. This is a simple and harmless test. Mark...
• Re: turn signal wires, help.
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:37:00 -0700
  Are there no wires left on the connector you snipped? If there are, you should be able to use the connector as a reference...
• FIXED Power passenger window intermiitent failure
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:27:24 -0800
  As suggested by a list member the intermittent power window problem was indeed a broken wire inside the driver door boot routing wires to...
• Stereo wires don't match up
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:53:15 -0400
  ...It previously had no stereo at all and all the wires cut. Well, I can find threads online but the colors they list for...
• Electrical question - '85 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Michael Wagner
  Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:40:53 EDT
  ...What is this thing and what to the wires connect to? I've looked at the schematics, but can't figure it out. Any...
• Re: Help identifying part (image provided)
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 6 May 2007 08:39:04 -0700
  ...They come > in various flavors - some are a box with wires on both the "car" and > "trailer" ends; some have wires on the "car...
• Re: head lamp relay upgrade
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:11:56 -0800
  ...The correct wires are inside a black plastic sleeve in the area nearest the dimmer switch. That makes it less obvious which wires to...
• Re: Cigarette Lighter
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:07:58 -0700
  ...Bentely shows connector having red wires in-out. Maybe came loose? Or, PO + wiring to stereo is also a junction to cig socket etc...
• Junction box?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 4 Jul 2011 07:07:36 -0700
  ...I could just solder the gauge wires to the sender wires and leave the spares unconnected. But I'd like to use some kind...