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• Re: Short Fused about plastic fuses
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:02:27 -0800
  ...Last week to my amaze, my > wipers stopped working again, and when I looked at the fuse box, the fuse had > completely burned thru...
• Eurospec problem
  Historical mailing list - Grant Holst
  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:37:20 -0700
  ...van(in the black box that has the picture of vacuum lines on the cover) to the dash/fuse block and back to the...
• Re: water leaking from fuse box area
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Sibley
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:12:46 EST
  this phenomenon is present on everyones' vanagons, especialy those made in 1986-88. it's crazy i know, i think it runs down from...
• Re: Fridge on DC power
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:21:27 -0500
  ...There is a small black box there. Kitchen fuses are in it. mcneely -- David McNeely
• Re: 88 vanagon battery/water level sensor
  Historical mailing list - Vince S
  Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:54:39 -0700
  Have you check the dedicated fuse box located between the driver seat and the sink cabinet? There are 2 fuses inside for the kitchen...
• Re: Arrgh.. Headlights out on 86
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Mulligan
  Sun, 25 May 2008 22:10:35 -0400
  ...Look for a relay near the fuse box with blue, yellow, red and either brown or black wire connected to it. The problem may...
• Digifant mysteries...
  Historical mailing list - Roger Bowman
  Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:15:01 -0700
  ...1.) Inside the "wire distribution box" I found a fuse holder with a 5 amp fuse. A brief review of the schematic did not...
• Re: HELP TO FIX WINDSHIELD WIPERS 91 VANAGON
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:59:31 -0700
  ...Remove the fuse box cover and remove and re-insert the fuses. Worst comes to worst I've got a used wiper motor for...
• Re: Headlight Relay - Do I Really Need A New Feed?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:18:55 -0400
  ...You can run another wire from the battery to the fuse box but the harness from the alternator to the battery cable connection at...
• Re: Blower Fan troubles
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:35:49 -0500
  ...box are welded, or should i say glued and >some are not. But clip should be there. Mon cher Benoit, [Technicalement]? ils ont [fuse...
• Re: No brake lights
  Historical mailing list - Zach White
  Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:12:28 +0000
  ...Did some research on the archives and I think > it may be the switch or the fuse. Looking over the fuse box I don...
• Re: radiator fan and A/C
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:34:45 -0700
  ...That relay is above the fuse box. > Dropping the fuse box will make it visible. There is a fuse link on the > socket. > > > > Dennis...
• Back-up light problem solved
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:30:38 -0400
  ...The horn should work, if not check fuse #12, as that is the same fuse which serves the back-up lights. Once you find...
• Re: Battery dies due to excessive draw on fuse #3 (accessories)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:35:48 -0700
  ...Go to the back of the fuse box and isolate the 3 circuits on fuse 3 until ...if it's one of those circuits...
• Re: No Start Scenario
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:00:43 -0700
  ...ALL looks good in the engine compartment wiring box though. I will inspect the fwd panel this weekend and will No doubt have a...
• Re: 1991 vanagon - Auxiliary Battery wiring upgrade
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:40:17 -0700
  ...Fuse #6 awg wire at aux battery side with a 60 amp inline fuse. > This > should handle any high temperature conditions that the interconnecting...
• 1.9l kittens, er, fuses to a good home
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 23 May 2014 06:29:36 -0400
  ...couple of nice yellow Buss boxes, one with three GBC-8 and the other with five GBC-25 fuses. Anyone with a 1.9l...
• Re: Wiring trouble- 1985
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:38:44 -0700
  ...to the fuse panel top of fuse #12 where another black wire carries the power on to the engine compartment wiring box where a...
• 1984 Vanagon 1.9L watercooled
  Historical mailing list - dan
  Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:03:59 -0500
  ...However, when I bought the fan I noticed like the 8th slot in the fuse box was burnt and charred and broken with no...
• Re: Headlights Not Working!
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:13:18 -0700
  ...behind the fuse box. This has sure been covered on the list before... My problem is both my high beam fuses burn out, both...
• Re: 84 Electrical-Fusible Link?
  Historical mailing list - Mark E. White
  Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:00:26 -0500
  > > if not (in engine compartment) > if not (behind fuse box) > do while (not working) > ask the list again > keep checking on my own > enddo...
• Need late model fuse box
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:50:01 -0400
  Mine has a short on the inside of it for my wiper relay......Anyone parting one out? Pmail please. vgonman@msn.com Adam P...
• Re: No Headlights or Turnsignals but Markers OK Update
  Historical mailing list - Cunegonde
  Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:11:00 -0700
  ...When I was first trying to repair the passenger lowbeam, I created a ground to the body on the box-section safety beam behind...
• Re: D15 connector revealed
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:56:48 -0700
  I had a similar problem on another vehicle a long time back (85 Nissan Sentra) which was a plug to the fuse box through...
• Re: Engine Bay Wiring Harness: Heat Damage? PIC
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:11:31 -0400
  ...might want to fuse the red B+ lead from the terminal post inside the wiring box that feeds the relay box. Doing that would...
• Re: Adding Horns. B+ (30) To Power Horns OK?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:49:38 -0700
  ...Actually my spare Jetta fuse block might fit behind the glove box. I have some of the stock connectors. Hmmm.... Neil. On Fri, Apr...
• Re: Tips for cleaning up wiring under dash
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:50:55 +0000
  ...Hi Richard, What about considering a secondary fuse box (kind of like a sub panel) and secure it in a central spot somewhere under...
• Re: Rad fan testing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 9 Aug 2015 19:12:17 -0500
  ...On the early vans the common > failures beside the radiator switch are the fuse, fuse box, relay for high > speed and wiring. On the...
• Re: Instrument Cluster Woes
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:16:20 -0600
  ...Pull the fuse box out and look up behind it. I don't know what the 85 grounds will look like, the later models...
• Re: Ignition Switch "Su" Power
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:50:28 -0800
  ...but I doubt you have that jetta fuse box in your vanagon .. and those things could stand to be fuse-protected. If I was...
• Re: Engine Bay Wiring Harness: Heat Damage? PIC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:44:24 -0700
  ...The wires to the B+ post inside the junction box looked OK but a fuse sounds like a good idea. Much thanks! Neil. > Yrs...
• Re: Vanagon factory cruise control system... install resource?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:42:20 EST
  ...pedal switches, speedo pickup, stalk switch, and fuse box, is all one harness.. the trickiest part is tapping off of the fuse box. chris...
• power source for new "air" horn advice on power source
  Historical mailing list - Edward Barger
  Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:38:41 -0700
  ...back of the fuse box by the drivers door As per gowesty instruction video Along the left side of the fuse bock there is...
• Re: dim headlights
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Arbaugh
  Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:35:51 -0700
  ...Going to install an >additional fuse panel for accessories behind glove box) >If you can find one, buy one and install it. The best...
• Re: rear wiper won't work
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Sun, 8 Jul 2007 21:55:27 -0500
  ...If it behaves as described, then you've got trouble either in the fuse box or in the wires from back to front. Post...
• Re: Arrgh.. Headlights out on 86 FIXED
  Historical mailing list - Bill Shawley
  Wed, 28 May 2008 15:47:31 +0000
  ...bucket Headlights work! I'll clean the array of grounds behind fuse box at my leisure and that'll be my first suspect if...
• Disable power windows?
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:37:27 -0700
  ...I tried removing all the black boxes (relays?) above the fuse panel one by one and NONE disabled the power windows. There are lots...
• cranking battery ok as auxiliary?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff and Deb
  Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:32:29 -0700
  ...My whole system is set up with a second fuse box located in the lower driver side cabinet for the interior lights and furnace...
• Re: fan blowing fuse
  Historical mailing list - Todd Kaderabek
  Tue, 9 May 2000 13:42:01 -0400
  ...First you take the dashboard out, then you take the heater box out, then you split the heater box in half (the resistor is...
• Re: alternators
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 09 Jul 94 23:14:32 EDT
  the reason your alternator voltage drops so low with all those accessories on is that the wire from the alternator to the fuse box...
• Blue wire to aux battery dead - fixed
  Historical mailing list - Gregor Brandt
  Mon, 14 May 2007 12:06:06 -0500
  Fixed! Using the bentley and the help from the list I was able to backtrace the blue wire from G4 on the fuse box...
• Re: Mega-fuse? (between batteries)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:25:41 -0800
  ...if there is a fuse at that end....right? So I should probably put one of the fuses at each end...then the wire...
• Re: Diesel engine help needed (little or NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Maynard Southard
  Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:47:02 -0400
  ...It was intact and OK. > > Now, there was a relay about in the middle of the fuse box that looked > 'rusty' near its pins...
• Re: 91 15A fuse Radio and clock
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:24:11 -0600
  ...anything that causes more current to go > > through that circuit than fuse was rated for. A frayed wire, a faulty > > load (radio, clock, whatever...
• Re: Survey: Where is your paint code label?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:08:45 EST
  ...batt box (paint code (name and number)only) most 84-91 are under left side of dash, under beam that fuse box is screwed...
• Re: Headlight Relay - Do I Really Need A New Feed?
  Historical mailing list - Jack Cook
  Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:10:55 -0700
  ...You can run another wire from the battery > to the fuse box but the harness from the alternator to the battery cable > connection at...
• Re: Aux. Wire/Battery Install Pics/Notes
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:12:38 -0700
  ...The hot tip is to drill out the rivets that hold that POS Westy sealed lid bracket to the otherwise normal battery box so...
• Re: Clicking under the dash?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:15:15 -0700
  ...I took a quick look at the fuse box when I arrived at > work but didn't see anything amiss. Everything seemed to function...
• What are these wires, anyway?
  Historical mailing list - K. Taylor
  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:25:06 -0700
  ...In my fuse box, I have two wires hanging loose. Each has a yellow connector at the end of them. I have a photograph...
• Re: Electric: Where should +12V to camping fusebox and relay originate?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 9 Mar 2014 15:25:37 -0700
  ...IIRC, the '85 could have either the older or newer style fuse panel. AFAIK, the Vanagon would not originally have a headlight relay; hi...
• Re: Another D15 connector failure example- The fix!
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:14:12 -0800
  ...The path thorough the fuse box is a weak link for number of circuits including the stater solenoid. > > Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing...
• 88 Electrical/ light questions
  Historical mailing list - Paul Dierze
  Thu, 13 May 1999 18:32:47 GMT
  ...What is that small fuse box behind the drivers seat? �It has one normal bus fuse and something else on the other side. Also...
• Re: Inoperative front blower issue.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:38:01 -0500
  ...I am wondering if there is a hidden fuse to the motor I should be looking for; the fuses in the fuse box and...
• Re: Fuse holder and relay bracket
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:46:31 -0700
  What I would do is install a fuse box from an 86 and up vanagon, The kind that uses the newer kind of fuses...
• Re: Westy reefer relay wiring -- the Red wire?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:23:12 -0400
  ...where does the "TO BATTERY" wire go? THE FUSE BOX! There are two wires on the engine battery + terminal: the chubby starter cable, and...
• Re: Rad fan testing
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:09:14 -0400
  ...On the early vans the common > >> failures beside the radiator switch are the fuse, fuse box, relay for > high > >> speed and wiring. On the...
• Re: Re-introduction & Dash Removal Question
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:09:16 -0600
  Having the dash out might be a good time to install an 8 or 10 point fused bus behind the glove box, should you...
• Re: orphan wire behind fuse panel
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:49:49 -0700
  ...K5, according to wiring diagram, is linked (within fuse box) to connector B14, which is another round prong connector in a connector block on...
• Re: Disconnect 12V System?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:45:58 -0700
  Frank, The easiest way to disconnect the fridge from the 12 v system is to pull the two fuses in the small fuse box...
• Re: Another D15 connector failure example- The fix!
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:28:52 -0800
  ...The path thorough the fuse box is a weak link for number of circuits including the stater solenoid. > > Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing...