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• More 1.9l Starter Questions
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:27:24 -0400
  ...If they are the same, why did VW double the wire size in '86+ (battery to starter cable)? Why does Kennedy Engineering Products say...
• Re: So thar I was (Engine wouldn't start)
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:38:23 -0700
  ...You > just = > push > on the bottom of a solenoid device that's in the battery cable, not > on = > the > starter, and the starter energizes...
• Update: Alternator not putting out volts 88 GL
  Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
  Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:36:33 -0400
  ...Which wire(s) off the alternator go to the battery? I did accidentally arc the cable from the starter on the alternator and have...
• Re: Aux. battery questions
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:50:50 -0400
  ...I chose to only drill one hole in the aux battery compartment as per above. I routed the cable from the main battery out...
• Re: 91 Vanagon Manual - slow cranking....
  Historical mailing list - brett rueff
  Wed, 8 Dec 2010 05:47:06 +0000
  ...Still not great - most of my loss is coming in the cable that goes from battery neg to ground in the battery box. I...
• Re: #8 Wire Terminal Crimp w/DIY Tools. Pass or fail? PICS
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:37:57 -0700
  ...http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/battery_cables Based upon just this one image, I'd say my crimp is a fail: http://www.pbase...
• Re: Input on Prestone jumpstart Battery
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:08:10 -0400
  ...sealed" lead acid > > battery w/ built in jumpstart cables and charger? ... > > I considered getting one of those sealed portable battery packs. > Since my camper...
• Re: Update (not fixed...) Re: FIXED? (and, advice needed...) (was: Re: low voltage, starter running intermittently, but alternator is okay?)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:46:02 -0600
  ...the starter and the battery? > > Is the bonding strap you're talking about here different from the ground > cable from the transmission to the...
• Re: Air Cooled Alternator (Was: aux battery draining primary)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 29 May 2002 12:30:30 -0500
  ...aux battery > >> draining primary) > >> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >> > > >> >Put an ammeter across the neg. cable and the neg. post to > >> see if any...
• Diesel Wiring Problem!
  Historical mailing list - Gord Plouffe
  Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:01:00 MST
  ...Turns out the pos battery post was a bit to high and grounded out on the engine cover...oops! So I attached the cable...
• Re: Battery Problems- Slow Cranking
  Historical mailing list - cesar quiros
  Wed, 12 May 2010 09:55:15 -0700
  ...You can try the old take of the neg battery cable and put a test light in series trick, and if it lights the...
• Re: alternator output question
  Historical mailing list - Marius Strom
  Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:28:37 +0000
  I had similar measurements, and changed out the ground cable from the battery to the body (and replaced the corroded old ground screw with...
• Re: 12.2 V at rest ('85 Westy w/2.1L)
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:22:51 -0700
  Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > hi, > sure, I am aware that an additional battery cable from alt B + to batt > positive terminal is 'non standard...
• Re: can vanagon run w/out alternator?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Crawford
  Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:33:58 -0800
  ...the shut-off solenoid and ran some jumper cables from the starter to the battery. So no, it does not *need* an alternator to...
• Re: 86 cabrio advice needed
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:19:58 -0600
  ...The switch contacts of the relay connect to the large starter terminal with the cable to the battery and the smaller push-on terminal...
• Re: Auxiliary battery for 89 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:03:04 -0400
  Do you really need to carry 260 pounds of battery? What are you running? You should connect them to a real charger periodically to...
• High Output Regulators
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Mon, 28 Apr 97 10:20:32 PDT
  ...Of course clean the battery terminals with one of those terminal cleaning brushes that will shine up both the inside of the cable connector...
• On-board Charging.
  Historical mailing list - Cetin Seren
  Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:05:40 -0500 (EST)
  ...a battery blanket. > > i just connected the leads of the charger right to the cable clamp bolts, > ran the leads outside the battery box...
• Re: charge batter in the vehicle
  Historical mailing list - Carl Hansen
  Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:00:48 -0600
  ...and it drained my battery, hence my start problems. I broke >out my trusty 20' ONE GAUGE (!) jumper cables (on sale at Canadian Tire...
• Re: Batteries and solar panels!
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sat, 4 Jul 2015 16:30:20 -0700
  ...So if it had an aux battery switch, I would have switched off the aux battery and just used electrical power from the cable...
• Re: Deep cycle batteries, voltage regulators, and eating cake
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:27:51 -0400
  ...If you have an 87 and later woth AC, there are 2 wires going from the battery cable. One goes to the fuse box...
• Re: Power window not working...
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:48:47 -0400
  ...If your battery doesn't die over the weekend, you just found your short! Good luck! Jack -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto...
• Re: The drama continues -> Both low beams burnt out at same time?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:22:58 -0700
  ...battery system (I don't have a 2nd > battery, but it appears that in addition to the stock positive cable > on my battery there...
• 87 vanagon jump-started then over heated
  Historical mailing list - brad horner
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:24:25 -0500
  I had owned the van for two days when I left the lights on, thus draining the battery. After jump starting, it would overheat...
• Re: Temporary but total power loss
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 27 May 2014 08:16:37 -0700
  ...If the red wire is ok I would look at the battery post connections and the battery ground cable to chassis connection. Those also...
• Fridge problems
  Historical mailing list - Mike Barfield
  Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:06:50 -0400
  ...I plan to leave the charger on the battery all night (with cables removed). Anyone got any ideas why 120v isn't working? Mike...
• Re: Fiamma and Aux Battery Kits, in Canada
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Graydon
  Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:41:57 -0400
  ...welding cable is 4 gauge) with just the Yandina coming from the US. The setup is very nice with the aux battery being charged...
• Re: Slow starting when hot
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 May 1997 06:31:36 -0400
  ...connection, or the relay is not passing the battery power on to the >starter cable. Since I can't visably see your system, you...
• Re: new series 48 Odyssey battery
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:01:07 -0700
  ...If I should ever need to start using my coach battery, I have some jumper cables. I also have a small solar panel that...
• Re: WAS: Starter Motor... Failure: NOW: 50 Circuit Weirdness. ECU Related?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:30:27 -0800
  ...Gets it down to just battery, starter, battery and ground cables, thus eliminating and bypassing numerous possible weak areas. Helps you know where to...
• Re: mice and chewed wiring?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:50:56 EDT
  ...chewed through....EVERY wire in the engine compartment has been chewed through (spark plug wires, headlights, even the battery cables show signs of chewing!)
• Re: Starter Gone?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:54:37 -0400
  ...I tested the battery cable, I added a new ground directly from the starter to the chassis (DO THIS! This is a big improvement...
• 1983 Vanagon Westy auxilliary battery wiring question
  Historical mailing list - Dodgy Bugga
  Tue, 11 May 2004 20:54:04 +0100
  I have a question regarding the wiring for the auxilliary battery in a 1983 Vanagon Westy. I had the small silver relay under the...
• Re: aux battery + jump starting
  Historical mailing list - Reinhard Vehring
  Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:21:30 -0800
  ...EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > I've run jumper cables from the house battery to the > starter battery > without any trouble. > > JFF > On Nov 11, 2004...
• Re: Great Trip Computer
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:47:00 -0700
  I have this with the internal lithium battery and serial cable. I don't recommend it for driving. There are no street maps built...
• Re: not recharging / DEAD battery
  Historical mailing list - Paul N. Oliver
  Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:07:48 -0600
  ...i am pretty sure >> the battery is relatively new (no more than a year old) >> the ground cable looks bad... not on the terminal...
• Re: Batteries and solar panels!
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 4 Jul 2015 17:05:01 -0700
  ...So if it had an aux battery > switch, I would have switched off the aux battery and just used electrical > power from the cable...
• Re: Main battery tight fit
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Sun, 3 Jun 2007 20:52:33 EDT
  ...had to bend back the back lip of the battery box and bend the cables as far forward as possible). ************************************** See what's free...
• Re: Stereo Off; USB Device Current Draw Through Stereo
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:42:08 -0800
  ...It takes it about three weeks without driving for the maintenance circuit to drop the battery to where it won’t start. Jim > On...
• Re: Battery switches
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:22:42 -0400
  ...causes charging problems which are aggravated by the long cable from alternator to battery. It becomes necessary to bring the sense terminal of the...
• Re: Starter Solonoid Blues
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Sep 1995 15:30:42 -0300
  ...solenoid uses big 13mm nuts to hold on the fat cable from the battery, and the other end of these nuts is a bolt...
• Re: What Specific Model Optima Auxiliary Battery Should I Buy? Any Comments on the Hella Kit?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:54:49 -0400
  ...and longer than would be required to go >directly from the auxiliary battery to the starter battery. Ok, fair enough. Although in my book...
• Re: I could use a little help
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 28 May 2010 15:58:11 -0500
  ...I'm looking for a jumper cable plug-in that fits on the floor over the > battery right behind the passenger seat by the...
• Re: no start problem
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Simmons
  Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT)
  ...It turned out that the battery cable was corroded. >X-POP3-Rcpt: fzsimmon@dilbert >Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:33:47 -0500 >Errors...
• Re: 91 fridge not lighting
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:13:06 -0400
  If the LED glows dimly and then goes out, you may have 1) weak battery (not enough voltage and it can't spark 2...
• more ???? Re: Diesel alternator
  Historical mailing list - andrew swingler
  Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:40:36 -0800
  ...a larger cable direct from the alternator stud. If you connect the aux battery via the charging wire on the starting battery (through a...
• Re: 2nd battery ??
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:42:18 -0800
  ...What route have you found to be the best to pass the 02 > or 03 battery cable from the main battery to the aux...
• Re: alternator output voltage?
  Historical mailing list - JM/CO
  Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:06:17 -0400
  ...This same condition can be caused by anything that raises the resistances of the battery cables / ground connections, such as looseness or corrosion. Hope...
• 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: Is something killing my starters?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:35:09 -0700
  ...probably assume that I'll be buying a new > starter and + battery cable. -- Neil n Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> 1988...
• Re: Trying to understand starter stuff
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:49:56 -0800
  ...They have to have big cables direct to the battery; a heavy switch that can switch them on and off under load without burning...
• Opening rear hatch from inside, was: Winter camping HEAT
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:48:50 -0500
  ...AUX BATTERY. I installed the largest auxilliary battery I could find in a battery box on the top carrier. Cables go through drain-hole...
• Re: Engine out, now in: won't start
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:57:19 -0700
  ...Check the ground cable at the front trans mount. Make sure that left side ground braided cable is on right , left side of engine...
• Re: Super Horns
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:25 -0500
  ...You also need to upgrade the > path from the alternator to the battery cable. On the 86 and later vans > with AC there are...
• Re: Aux Battery in GL-Sure Power Instructions Needed
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:40:12 -0700
  ...get around to it, and use jumper cables if I have starting issues. So a G48 battery also fits, but has higher capacity? Good...
• Re: '81 Vanagon: 12V source in engine compartment?
  Historical mailing list - Undetermined origin c/o LISTSERV administrator
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:29:45 -0700
  ...air seal down to the starter and connect positive to the > battery cable terminal and negative to the transmission. + term on the alternator (or...
• Re: OXS and battery light on intermitant
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:16:44 -0500
  I don't know the wiring details of the conversion, but if this circuit is still stock, you should follow the speedo cable up...
• Re: [Syncro] The Syncro project arrives...(won't start)
  Historical mailing list - Pedersen, Michael
  Wed, 23 May 2001 09:13:23 -0700
  ...Hooked up my jumper cables from the engine block to the negative terminal of the battery to increase the ground... Zoots Alor! It worked...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome, et al
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:59:59 -0600
  ...the cable. > > http://www.cybertrails.com/~ahwahnee/Battery1.JPG > http://www.cybertrails.com/~ahwahnee/Battery2.JPG > http://www.cybertrails.com/~ahwahnee/Battery3.JPG > http...
• Re: Ft Lewis troubles
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:06:11 -0500
  ...Don't forget to begin your work by removing the battery ground cable (should be 10mm wrench). -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws...