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Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
Historical mailing list - Madsen, Ken
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:09:23 -0600
Could you guys point out what ground points should be checked, specifically, locations? Ken 87GL -----Original Message----- From: John Rodgers [mailto:j_rodgers@CHARTER...
Re: Grounds (was Quality Inverters)
Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:07:36 -0500
...I agree, but I also disagree. :) "Ground" (and related words like "grounded" and "grounding") do have a specific meaning in the context of things...
Re: Ground Stars
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:53:30 -0700
...alistair On 2012-07-02, at 3:20 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > I'm not interested in those ground stars so much since...
Re: shur power 1315 wiring question
Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:28:31 -0600
...If the relay was mounted to a non- grounded base then a ground wire would need to be installed anyway. George '85 Westfalia
Re: Radiator fan issue - where's the ground?
Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:16:53 -0700
The brown ground wire from the fan motor goes to the common ground star under the dash, where most ground wires plug in. If...
Re: Multi Conductor Shielded Automotive Wire Temperature Rating
Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:48:35 -0800
...I run dedicated grounds from each of the 12V outlets to that ground farm. https://sbw.org/westybattery/ The audio shields are grounded at...
Re: Elec.Gurus! DC ground question (fridge fans off shore power)
Historical mailing list - neil N
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:30:39 -0700
...12v Grounds for Accessories > Some are going to argue that I'm overdoing it and that using chassis ground > for accessories will work fine...
Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome Friday
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:04:26 -0700
My fix for the grounding problems is to dip the entire van in liquid solder. When it hardens: Presto, perfect grounding! Yeah I just...
bad radiator fan ground - 87 westy
Historical mailing list - Mike Kozak
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:06:32 -0400
My radiator van ground behind the fuse box is faulty. Fan won't work unless I push on the ground connection with a screwdriver...
More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:58:11 -0700
Jay wrote: >Grounds and clean connections are the key. I have added extra body to >engine ground wires, as well as wires from the...
Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:12:55 -0600
...All the connections are cleaned and assembled with di-electric >> grease. > > > Grounds, grounds, grounds... > > I believe that part of the problem is that VW...
Re: Dual horn wiring
Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:09:18 -0400
As I see it, you want power (fused) to go to relay terminal #86 with terminal #85 to ground through the horn button (horn...
Re: Battery ground
Historical mailing list - Jack Reynaert
Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:29:09 -0400
The Ground on ALL Vanagons is negative. Be sure to remove the ground strap from the chasse and clean well with a wire brush...
Re: ?On Which Side Is Ground Point 18?
Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:17:07 -0500
...I am cleaning grounds also, and would like to do this too. Good Morning, Fred E-mail message Subject: ?On Which Side Is Ground...
Re: Headlight grounds
Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:36:11 -0700
I cleaned up the grounds I could reach especially the one for the headlights. They work. I should redo all the grounds with new...
Re: Neat Camper upgrade
Historical mailing list - Rodney L. Boleyn
Tue, 13 May 1997 12:05:50 -0400
...The ground wire hangs around as a protective path to ground, and it's usually used for grounding appliance housings and such. The ground...
Re: Where's the other end of my broken ground strap?
Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 23:16:10 -0600
...As for the Grounds ~ If the Ground Strap @ the Front of the Trany is in Good Condition then Your Broken Ground Strap is not...
Re: Fuel Pump Ground Location?
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:59:02 -0700
...then the ground has nothing to do with it. As others have noted , fuel pump ground is usually to a screw in the frame...
Re: Speaking of cooling issues ...
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:15:36 -0400
...2) Panel ground at temp gauge ground pin voltage to chassis ground. Should be close to zero. 3) Voltages to chassis ground at regulator...
Re: distro body ground
Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:48:10 +0000
...distro body ground > > The ground wire is for a steel shell that drops over the distributor cap. > Suppose it is for screening of radio...
Re: WBX Digifant Ground Check. No Continuity Between Some Points.
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:55:36 -0700
...on the van in question ...ground is ground. Negative battery cable does not have to be connected, to find continuity between any ground wire...
A question about grounds...
Historical mailing list - Jeremy Speer
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:38:21 -0600
Folks, I'm wondering about that ground point on the driver's side head... the one where the big ground exits to the chassis...
Re: 87 2.1 loss power
Historical mailing list - Amy Miner
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:20:46 -0400
Yes I did check the braid itself to ground and yes its grounded. The center wire is clean until I turn the key on...
Re: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:17:27 -0400
...Check to make sure you have the >correct ground connection by noticing with the ground wire unplugged >that the existing Headlights go out" sounds...
Re: Headlight swtich diagnostics?
Historical mailing list - mdrillock
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:57:54 -0800
That ground 16 is explained on 97.66. Look at the bottom of the page and current track 104. I have written about the...
Re: A question about grounds...
Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:57:13 -0500
Instead of grounding to the head you could connect to a more convenient location like the top bolt (drivers side) that attaches the engine...
Re: Multi Conductor Shielded Automotive Wire Temperature Rating
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:39:18 -0500
Changing the length of a ground wire isn't likely to make much difference unless it's carrying noticeable current, in which case if...
Re: Preliminary...Headlight weirdness? (long) Solved!
Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:26:00 -0700
Hey, I think I just learned here how to test ground? So if I go from the power supply on a "load" and go...
Re: Help Wiring O2 Sensor
Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:33:03 -0700
...Ideally the O2 (and all other sensors) should share a common ground point with the ECU signal ground. Damned if I know where the...
?On Which Side Is Ground Point 18?
Historical mailing list - George Goff
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:11:57 EDT
Yesterday, I started to poke around the engine trying to locate Ground Point 18. I didn't have much time to locate it, but...
Re: RADIO/CD PLAYER QUESTIONS - common ground wiring
Historical mailing list - sam.cooks
Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:09:08 -0500
Sam, One reply mentioned the common ground wiring issue. There was a substantial amount of discussion a few months ago about when the use...
ground @ water pump housing
Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:36:35 -0400
I think I've narrowed my temperature gauge problem down to an improper ground at the water pump housing. How is ground supplied to...
Re: O2 Sensors need grounding? (was STILL BUCKING & KICKING!!!)
Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:38:08 EST
...Digijets ground through the exhaust system, as David says. Digifants ground through pin 19 of the ECU, through a brown wire that emerges from...
Re: Ground for O2 Sensor?
Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:04:56 EDT
If the heads are not grounded would the spark plugs then not fire? The heads are attached to the exhaust pipes which are attached...
Re: Pigtail needed_looking for add'l grounds
Historical mailing list - Pat Spragge/RFAN
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:41:14 -0800
Dennis, Where are these located on the '89 Westfalia? I've cleaned up the 2 ground locations under the coil, also the 1 on...
Re: Rad Fan
Historical mailing list - Scott DeSanti
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:02:00 EDT
...turns out the ground off the fan motor had degraded to 6 kohms. I cleaned the ground terminals behind the fuse box where it...
ground for brake lights
Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:10:13 -0400
Can someone tell me the location of ground for the brake light bulbs on an 85 westy. Is it below the coil or below...
Re: Preliminary...Headlight weirdness? (long) Solved!
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 16:36:43 -0700
On 6/9/2012 2:10 PM, Don Hanson wrote: > When I go to identify the Ground wire in the wiring to the plugs...
Re: dash lights out when stereo not grounded?
Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:28:10 -0500
...Thus it seems to me that the ground from the dash lights is going (backwards) through the ground to the stereo, and then out...
Re: more information on engine swap/fuel pump woes
Historical mailing list - Jack Botts
Fri, 4 May 2012 18:14:04 -0500
" the fuel pump is grounded on the frame right by the fuel pump." While t-shooting a won't start problem yesterday, one of...
Re: O2 sensor grounding?
Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:02:32 -0500
Easy enough to see of grounding is your problem... just clamp a big ol' jumper cable to the metal sensor body, and the clamp...
Aux Battery system, volts escaping to ground!
Historical mailing list - craig cowan
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:25:58 -0400
...If Start is hooked up, start goes to ground. If both are hooked up, power goes to ground. It goes to the ground at...
Re: HELP!! No Headlights - 87 Westy
Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:31:06 -0400
...You have lost the ground connection to the lamps. You can connect the grounds directly to sheet metal behind the the light assemblies, (best...
Re: Help me read a wiring diagram
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:08:54 -0500
At 09:39 PM 1/14/2013, John Reynolds wrote: >On the mystery ground, I took my meter across the Brown wire at the...
grounds: air cooled vs water cooled
Historical mailing list - jake beaulieu
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:54:08 -0500
Hello, I am going through my 82 AC Westy and replacing the terminals on all the ground wires (well, at least the grounds in...
syncro fuel gauge sender ground
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:55:50 -0700
Bentley is a bit vague on this, anyone know where the ground wire from the fuel gauge sender connects to the body? The 2...
Re: Send in the Grounds...
Historical mailing list - John
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:58:35 -0400
...Since you're checking grounds, is the engine/transmisson assembly properly grounded ? Is the transmission ground strap in perfect condition ? The only way worth...
Re: Yet another turn signal L.E.D. data point...
Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:15:37 -0700
Bad ground, bad ground, bad ground...................... While the IC bulbs are mostly LEDs, the other dash bulbs are incandescent. Incandescent bulbs don't have...
Re: WRONG INFO - O2 Sensor, Bucking, etc.
Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:55:40 -0600
...This is why the grounds are so critical on our vans. Digifant pin 19 ground for the ecu is used by the ecu adc...
Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:15:53 -0400
Jim The basic problem on the headlight install is step one of the instructions. " unplug the double ground wire from ground star and cut...
Re: No headlights & high beam indicator on means you need to clean the grounds!
Historical mailing list - Preston Grimes
Wed, 11 May 2005 12:42:17 -0700
...My headlight grounds were attached to the ground cluster closest to the front of the van behind the fuse box (reach back further and...
Re: New pop top Honda? - Ground ClearAnce
Historical mailing list - George Goff
Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:38:35 EDT
...The 4wd ones don't have much ground clearence though. >> Ground clearance might not matter. According to VW, a Syncro has less ground clearance...
Re: bemused by wiring
Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:39:22 -0800
All ground wires in the van do not run to that grounding point above the headlights. The headlights do, and dash area stuff does...
Re: Headlights not working (?) --> FIXED!
Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:24:06 -0500
Bill VW has never been too good at wiring INMHO, and they run all grounds to a common point. So if the two headlight...
Re: Headlight swtich diagnostics?
Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:15 -0800
...However, there is no ground #16 listed in benteley on page 97.60. I checked and cleaned the other grounds (including ground #10 the...
Re: Fuel gauge sender ground location
Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:15:57 -0800
...I moved the fuel sender ground wire forward when I had the gas tank out, but am almost certain it's the ground wire...
Re: O2 Sensors need grounding? (was STILL BUCKING & KICKING!!!)
Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:53:13 -0400
Gary, I have installed a ground cable from the Catalytic Converter to a chassis ground, otherwise, the OXS grounding depends on some rather rusty...
Re: Installing AMP in Vanagon..wiring SNAFU
Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:40:21 -0400
Yes, brown=ground in VW wiring. Probably those wires at one point were meant to ground to one of the crown-shaped ground terminal...
Re: grounds: air cooled vs water cooled
Historical mailing list - Roger Van Till
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:52 -0500
...Poked around on top and under my 81 and didn't see a ground strap any where. Roger On Feb 16, 2006, at 8...
Re: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:51:49 -0500
...For the lights, per the instructions that came with them, I cut the ground wires and grounded to the frame a short distance from...