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• Battery Under Back Seat
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:47 -0400
  I am thinking about installing a battery under the rear seat by simply running a heavy wire to the starter (which would in turn...
• RoadHaus - Wireless Internet Report
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:10:57 -0600
  Volks, A couple of people asked for a report on the Wireless Internet solution I use in the RoadHaus. Here yah go: http://www...
• Tach wire on an 86
  Historical mailing list - Jason Garel
  Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:52:19 -0400
  Hello, I have an 86 Vanagon and I'm having real trouble finding where the tach-o wire is in the engine bay. I...
• Electrical Chaos
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:08:42 -0500
  ...On the blue van, both wires are white, no marks on the wires, no other identifiers, and no marks on the PS switch. On...
• Wire Gauge Question? battery questions too!
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:53:49 -0500
  ...My quesiton is what is the 1.5 in the Bentley for wire size compared to standard gauge wire? Reason I ask is Ive...
• Wire Gauge Question? battery questions too!
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:53:49 -0500
  ...My quesiton is what is the 1.5 in the Bentley for wire size compared to standard gauge wire? Reason I ask is Ive...
• Looking at the silver cube in a '84 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Jason M. Yasment
  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:31:39 -0400
  ...Now, I have the wire from the 3 o'clock position wired to the + terminal and a 10ga wire leading to the same terminal...
• Refridgerator Relay Wiring Confusion
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:52:56 -0400
  There apprears to be some confusion as to the wire sizes feeding the refridgerator relay. In my '85 Westy, the relay is fed by...
• Re: [Fwd: common speaker wire to rear Vanagon speakers]
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:17:58 -0400
  ...Difficult to add another wire unless you take down the channel. I ran four wires under the van and came up into the rear...
• Re: Reinstalling FI in Vanagon***
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:06:23 -0400
  ...Clean all wire terminals on wires and relays, and make sure slide terminals are tight and not cracked. Hope this helps!! Regards, Mike and...
• Re: A question about grounds...
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:20:00 -0500
  ...You don't want it to wick very far up the wire. The danger here is the solder wicks up the wire and creates...
• AC vanagon coil to dist. wire?
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:17:51 -0400
  ...It appears that I have the wire for a California model! Bus Depot carries plug and coil wires, but does not discriminate between Federal...
• Re: Hmm. Headlights don't ...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:37:21 -0800
  It is very likely the ground wire for the headlights. They use separate fused power circuits but the ground wires join into a single...
• Re: Horns, improvements
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:52:42 -0700
  ...Then 85 is wired to the horn button wire and the > horn button grounds 85 when pressed. So the button ground is the real...
• O2 problems
  Historical mailing list - Jason Willenbrock
  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:42:58 -0500
  ...the green wire but not the snap wire, it runs fine.  if i disconnect the snap wire but connect green wire, it runs...
• Re: Mysterious loose ground wire
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 24 May 2011 10:52:57 -0700
  It's possible no one answered your last request because you didn't put include the model year, colour of wire, whether or not...
• Re: Headlight Upgrade Eilemma
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:12:32 -0700
  ...personally...........I have a very hard time with 'connect-red-wire-to-blue-wire' type instructions. I want to *understand* what I am connecting...
• Re: Bizarre starter problems pt.II
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:25:14 -0400
  ...Uses four wires. (1) You use the lead going to the starter as the feed trigger mechanism for the relay (2) ground it to...
• Re: Post-waterpump replacement - wires and noises
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Thu, 24 May 2007 19:05:06 -0700
  ...Do I connect the black wire to the > wires running free inside the green wire in the harness, or to the > inner green wire...
• Re: Radio Install
  Historical mailing list - Sean B.
  Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:05:17 -0700
  ...Test for voltage from some of the wires under there. You want to find a wire that reads about 12v when the ignition is...
• Re: $100 Reward to Solve Starter Problem
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:37:59 -0400
  ...I'm assuming the two wire connector in the relay box is the one with a brown and a green/yellow wire. I disconnected...
• Re: '97 VW Stereo Install
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:46:54 EDT
  ...Is has a large red/white wire, a large brown wire, a small grey/blue wire, a small brown/white and a small brown...
• Re: Desperate For Immediate Wiring Help
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:46:13 -0700
  ...They come out of this same sheathing as the wires going to the round connectors. There are two wires in question. One is blue...
• AC Wiring
  Historical mailing list - David Boan
  Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:49:19 +0000
  ...The wiring diagram shows two red wires connected together and then going to the battery. One wire is on a 24a fuse, the other...
• Another no start problem
  Historical mailing list - clark duff
  Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:45:29 -0400
  ...One of the wires, the larger one, from the ignition switch, is working ok, so I snip off the end of the smaller wire...
• Re: Hot A/C Wire
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:54:03 -0500
  ...How hot is too hot? It is the > wire > > on the right as it comes from the alt. > > BTW-This wire comes straight from...
• Re: Trying to install headlight relays but wire colors don't match
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:01:38 -0800
  ...However when the directions indicated that I needed to locate the Yellow and White wires coming from the dimmer switch I can't find...
• tach dash wiring, color order
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:52:15 -0800
  ...Move the wires to the right spot to use the 85 and later tach clusters. The unused white/red (old pin 12) wire can...
• Re: Engine Died
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:22:05 -0700
  ...the 1.0 black/red 50 wire .... would take a long path back through >> 1.0 wire to fuse panel, ..... > You cheated and looked...
• Re: Looking for spark plug wire recommendations
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:43:36 -0600
  ...My coil wire is going bad and > it's probably time to replace all the wires as a set. What I have > now is...
• Re: Running on 3 Cylinders
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:49:19 -0400
  The #1 and #3 plugs can suffer corrosion between the ends of the plug wires and the plugs. This phenomenon baffled me until it...
• Re: Heat won't shut off all the way
  Historical mailing list - Mark A. Rokus
  Fri, 13 Jun 1997 18:45:24 -0700
  When mine did this I found that the wire that connects the control and the valve has kinked and when you moved the handle...
• Re: Rough cold idle/Fast warm idle
  Historical mailing list - Ken Ehlert
  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:02:33 -0600
  ...Anyone know where this wire ends up under the vehicle? > Anyone know the purpose of this wire? Any chance this wire is related to...
• Re: Aux Battery Again
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:27:12 -0400
  I would probably wire the radio to this battery also. "Bill Davidson" <wdavidson@thegrid.net> on 08/17/2000 11:52:05 AM To...
• Re: Fuse box manipulation
  Historical mailing list - DaveC
  Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:22:57 -0700
  ...Put a male .250 spade connector on the end of the wire coming from >your aux batt. (use ~12 gauge wire and an inline...
• Re: hard start when warm
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:39:51 -0800
  Those wires sound like the 2 oil pressure switch wires. One is blue with a black stripe and the other is yellow. They should...
• Automatic starter wiring
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:34:32 -0400
  ...Thanks to some ingenuity I have attached both the large gauge starter to the solenoid and the thin red/white mystery wire to the...
• Re: cylinder head sensor location
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:57:18 -0700
  I am getting to re-do the CHT (the PO had a botch job), I have run new wires... how long should they be...
• Low oil pressure
  Historical mailing list - Greenamyer, William L
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:18:48 -0700
  ...Could never find any bad spot on the wire. Finally just sleved the wire around the tin with a piece of rubber vacuum line...
• Re: raido
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:29:47 -0400
  Erick - Methinks Pat's note is self-explanatory! My '85 GL has a hot wire & a ground wire going to the area of the...
• Re: Wiring/testing of VDO oil pressure gauge (dual sender)
  Historical mailing list - Tobin Copley
  Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:35:26 -0700
  On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 02:57 PM, kdlewis@juno.com wrote: > Tobin; > Did you remove the wire from the sender or the...
• Spark Plug Wire Resistance
  Historical mailing list - Blake Heinlein
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:15:49 -0400
  Hi Everyone, I was checking the resitance on the wire that goes from the coil to the distributor cap. Mine was 11,500 ohms...
• Re: Battery Light
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:54:57 -0500
  ...They may look tan from dirt > and age but early years had 2 white wires while later years had wires > with stripes. > > Mark > > Frank...
• Re: Dumb Question - Remote Start Switch
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 22 Jun 2014 04:38:20 -0700
  ...Then when you touch the other 2 wire ends together it will trigger the solenoid. This way the minor sparking is at the wire...
• Re: ADBQ
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 4 May 2003 11:25:51 -0700
  ...Even if you use a small wire/relay to connect it for charging purposes it is wise to use a regular battery ground clamp...
• Re: Mystery connector...I'm getting close
  Historical mailing list - Mark A Kippert
  Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:52:01 -0500
  ...I found a frayed, broken wire barely >> sticking out. It would seem a previous owner had assumed the loose >> wire went into oil sender...
• Ignition switch question
  Historical mailing list - cybor punk
  Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:16:20 -0700
  Hi all On my 85 Jetta the stereo is wired in such a that when the key is inserted into the ignition (and not...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:29:30 -0800
  The wires at the front left turn/park light socket. There are 3 wires there, plugged onto 3 separate prongs. Parking light, left turn...
• Re: Help troubleshoot my instrument cluster
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:09:33 -0800
  ...The 85-91 have all wires the same other than the 85 lacks 1 wire not used in 85. The 85 cluster will still...
• Re: 1987 Ground strap question
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:06:49 -0700
  Replace this, it goes to the left head at the point where all the brown ground wires connect. Very important wire, see my other...
• Weird wire under dash in my 79 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:59:00 -0800
  The healight swtich needed replacing so, as I was looking under there and swtiching wires over to the new swtich, I noticed a wire...
• Headlight relay setup not working in 89 Westy
  Historical mailing list - -- Dan Roberts
  Thu, 6 May 2004 21:18:41 EDT
  ...I followed the instructions without problems until I got to the part where I have to access wires exiting the ignition. Both the kit...
• Question about front heater core removal... blower motor wires
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:49:50 -0600
  ...the wires that power and control the heater motor. Is there a connector I am not seeing? Do most people just cut them and...
• Re: Surepower 1315, auxiliary fuse block, Progressive Dynamics charger, and Vitrifrigo installation questions
  Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
  Fri, 1 May 2009 16:44:43 -0600
  Harold, Even though you wont be using the aux start, you still need to hook up the small ground wire for the 1315 to...
• more rear window defrogger
  Historical mailing list - Chris Wyatt
  Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:34:05 -0900 (AKST)
  ...It was amputated at the wires, and later reattached, BUT WITHOUT THE WIRES! So, is it reasonable for me to expect the rear defrost...
• Re: No spark, no hall juice, tech help request.
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:05:25 -0700
  ...SO Me thinks that we need to replace > the wiring harness or chase the wires till we find the short or broken wire. > > ANy...
• Ground Wire For Camper Light Mystery
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:40:56 -0500
  <html> <body> Does anybody know how the factory default ground wire / grounding location is from the camper light in the back of late (grey...
• Re: Starting problem
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:45:44 -0500
  ...Near > the splices, the insulation was cracked and falling off on all 3 wires. One > wire seemed to be down to just a few...
• Re: Tips on running Speaker Wire to the Back speakers of a 86 Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Arbaugh
  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:54:16 -0800
  Not too difficult to solder the RCA plugs onto the wire once the wire is in place. Get the plugs from any e-parts...
• Re: Finding the PERFECT starter battery! (UPDATE!)
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:56:45 -0700
  ...Do you see a non stock looking #10 or > #12 wire with an inline fuse holder connecting to an empty fuse spot? > Does a...