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• Looking for headlamp ground on 87
  Historical mailing list - DougF in Calif
  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:31:52 -0800
  I am installing the headlight relay kit on an 87 syncro and the instructions say the ground wires for the headlamps should be on...
• bad grounds/running rich?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:35:36 -0600
  I have a feeling I have to start cleaning some grounds. This is a project left over from last year (spring has sprung, the...
• Re: Headlight swtich diagnostics?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:57:04 -0800
  ...the circle 16 ground isn't on the ground list on 97.60 ...........but I'd suspect it goes to the 'star' ground thing...
• Re: Starter/ground mystery-88 GL 4sp
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:02:23 -0800
  ...battery terminal, bypassing the chassis ground? sure, you can add all the ground cables and wires you want. there's no such thing as...
• Re: Definitive on the 87 not using a common ground for rear speakers
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:15:14 -0700
  >The shared ground to the rear speakers was through model year 1984. > >Starting with 1985, each rear speaker was wired to have its own...
• Re: syncro fuel gauge sender ground
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:26:26 -0700
  ...So yes, the Syncro sub-harness grounds back on the left side of the engine compartment along with other brown ground wires. The Syncro...
• Re: the transmission ground
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Mulligan
  Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:31:35 -0400
  If the tranny ground is disconnected, you'll likely not have adequate ground for the starter and thus won't be able to start...
• Re: dash lights out when stereo not grounded?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:39:48 -0500
  ...dash lights out when stereo not grounded? Dennis, thanks for the reply. There is a ground wire to the stereo... The funny thing is...
• Re: '87 Westy Weekender owner needs help!!!!!! 2.1L wbx running rich??? ideas??
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:54:57 -0400
  I think Mark's suggestion about the ground wire will cure the problem: "Another possibility is the ground wire for the OX sensor. This...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:16:35 -0500
  ...how about attaching a ground with a hose clamp? Just a thought. Mike Evan Mac Donald wrote: > Any body got any other ideas for...
• grounds: air cooled vs water cooled
  Historical mailing list - jake beaulieu
  Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:25:40 -0500
  ...This should totally eliminate any possibility that a faulty ground is causing my troubles. I have read that measuring the resistance of the ground...
• Re: headlights problems
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:48:01 -0500
  Dan, This sounds like a classic grounding problem. From the factory there is no ground behind the headlites, but there should be. Go in...
• Re: OXS ground
  Historical mailing list - Michael Hart
  Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:48:57 -0700
  ...Perhaps a break in the wiring to ecu?? Any reason why I should not just ground the OxS ground wire direct to chassis Gnd...
• Re: Ground Stars
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:00:35 -0400
  ...ground thing ....a well grounded bar with > holes drilled into it, ground wires to that, if I had to have 'that > many' ground wires...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:49:18 -0500
  Evan, There are generic O2 sensor available with grounds attached, check archives. Here is a page on sensors: http://www.wps.com/LPG/o2sensor...
• Ground straps
  Historical mailing list - Mark L. Hineline
  Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:08:07 -0800
  I read, perhaps on the samba, that the bolts for ground straps tend to sheer. True? I want to fuss with all my grounds...
• Re: (F) The importance of a good ground (LVC)
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:23:00 -0800
  ...I guess in those days if I'd known more I'd have cleaned/fixed the ground that was there but adding another ground...
• Re: Dead Vanagon....please help!
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:21:11 -0500
  (I am posting this pmail, without permission, to rapidly help a fellow Vanagoner-in-trouble, a "VIT") There sure are more grounds! There is...
• Re: Spring Maintenance...(long)
  Historical mailing list - SyncroHead
  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:09:49 EST
  In a message dated 98-03-17 11:12:54 EST, hyates@BERT.CR.BCIT.BC.CA writes: > There are two grounds I couldn...
• Headlight relays install grounding questions,
  Historical mailing list - Kevin
  Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:58:10 -0500
  ...I'm out of grounds on my posts. Can I just use those circle type connectors and drill a screw holding them togeather to...
• Re: WIERD SCIENCE -Reply
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:23:38 -0700
  At 08:41 AM 8/21/98 -0800, YauMan Chan wrote: >The ground point of the battery >much have a ZERO resistance to the...
• Re: tricky lighting problem / Czech ground
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:31:50 EST
  In a message dated 12/1/04 4:50:28 AM, andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes: << Bad grounds in lighting circuits can...
• Re: A question about grounds...
  Historical mailing list - JM/CO
  Thu, 7 Nov 2002 01:15:47 -0500
  ...A question about grounds... > Folks, > > I'm wondering about that ground point on the driver's side head... the one > where the big ground...
• Re: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:29:43 -0400
  The original headlight grounds wires do go to the front towards the main panel. I just can't locate the correct ones. To simplify...
• Re: The wire harness becomes brittle
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:50:35 -0500
  There are a number of FI grounds on the body near the coil, and a few on the engine itself. The ground strap direct...
• Re: Help diagnose POSSESSED 2.1L Vanagon engine
  Historical mailing list - John Haddad
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:22:47 -0400
  For O2 weirdness, I would check both the O2 sensor wiring and the ground for it (Ground Point 18 or GP18). For the sensor...
• Re: headlights
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 23 May 2007 07:05:41 -0700
  The ground for the headlights is going bad. The ground cluster behind the fuse/relay panel needs some cleaning and likely new ends on...
• Re: Looking for Grounding Star
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:25:59 -0800
  here's a good ground loop story then. I tuned up a car , a volvo , once upon a time. When it was time to...
• Re: Ground for O2 Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Fri, 15 Sep 2000 06:33:38 EDT
  Larry; I also grounded the AFM housing long ago for static reasons. I would think all grounds should be at the same potential. For...
• Ground for O2 Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:29:00 -0400
  Somebody made an interesting comment yesterday about the O2 sensor not grounding through rusty exhaust systems. Then somebody said their engine problems went away...
• Re: Broken Ground?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:20:55 -0800
  My thoughts are that it is a broken ground, as there > is nothing else close enough for it to connect to. > > The wire appears...
• Re: star grounds
  Historical mailing list - se7en
  Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:43:09 -0800
  Woody Halsey wrote: > > Dear List, > > A recent post mentioned the "star grounds" under the dash. They sound > important! Can anyone tell me what and...
• Re: extra precautions on fuelin up.
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Wed, 7 Dec 2005 07:32:58 -0500
  ...Grounding..... > The grounding is achieved when the metal/grounded nozzle comes in contact > with the metal filler pipe in the vehicle. Watching the video...
• Re: Where's the other end of my broken ground strap?
  Historical mailing list - George Gaudette
  Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:56:48 -0400
  ...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: Quality Inverters
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:04:49 -0400
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the in-vehicle "ground" means much to an object or person outside the...
• Re: Ground for O2 Sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:26:43 EDT
  In a message dated 9/14/00 6:22:07 PM, larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA writes: << IMHO extra grounds can't hurt. -Larry...
• Re: Ground wires, was- Dash wierdness, was- Aux Battery.....
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sat, 27 May 2006 19:18:20 -0700
  ...VW connected a lot of >>unrelated stuff in the dash to the same ground wire. When that ground >>wire connection develops corrosion over time...
• Bad Battery Cable- Check the ground! Response was blocked.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:44:38 +0000
  ...If you can measure voltage there you have a drop on the ground cable. It does happen where the factory transmission ground cable looks...
• Re: Headlights and Grounds
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:56:07 -0800
  ...relays or good grounds. IMO, the good ground provides more advantage. Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM...
• Re: Blinker issue
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:46:24 -0400
  You still have a bad ground or bad bulb. -craig On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Bryan Feddish <uprightbassghost@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote...
• Re: Headlights not working (?) --> FIXED!
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:00:08 -0800
  > Bingo! > I think it's fixed... > The two ground wires coming from the headlights had fused together > because they had > been squeezed together into...
• Re: digitool readings help needed
  Historical mailing list - Ed DeBolt
  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:16:33 -0700
  >It's grounded -- either from the wire or the device itself is shorted/not >generating voltage. It's got a little better ground than...
• Re: round > square headlight conversion / Lamp Life
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:08:07 -0400
  On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, mark drillock wrote: > Some of the voltage drop in Vanagon headlight wiring is due to aging > grounds and corrosion...
• HELP/starter/UPDATE
  Historical mailing list - James Ruch
  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:18:44 PDT
  ...but still on shaky ground: I got the starter to operate by grounding directly to the solenoid ground strap. Grounding to the starter body...
• Re: Engine Ground voltage drop under load, please help diagnose.
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:43:59 -0700
  braided ground strap.. https://www.amazon.com/Small-Parts-Tinned-Copper-Braid/dp/B003R501JU http://www.centurytool.net/10_Gauge_Braided_Ground_Strap_p...
• Re: 84 turn light short
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:49:51 EDT
  Sounds like a bad ground. Check the ground connections. I had a bad bulb cause a similar problem once. It was a double filament...
• Re: 87 2.1 loss power
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:11:23 -0700
  But did you check that the braid itself is grounded to the block? It must be grounded for the O2 system to work. The...
• Re: '86 Electrical Ground Locations (Cleaning Grounds)
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:22:15 -0500
  There are 2 main ground location on any westy. Here is the first one: http://www.benplace.com/85rouge/rouge154.jpg (just under the...
• Re: wont start, check ground wire
  Historical mailing list - sam.cooks
  Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:02:54 -0400
  If you are grounding the 2nd battery to the frame as usual instructions state, then you have a good ground. I would suspect the...
• Re: Send in the Grounds...
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:00:14 -0500
  Hi Steve, The most trouble some is the one under and to the front of the coil that has a ground strap that goes...
• Re: Headlight Ground
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:12:06 -0600
  Hi All, The head light ground and most of the vans front grounds are behind the fuse panel. Remove the lower 2 screws and...
• Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:56:46 -0800
  Any body got any other ideas for attaching a seperate ground to a 1-wire O2 sensor? I don't want to trust the...
• Re: 84 Engine hesitatation while cruising
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:59:44 EDT
  I would suggest you check your grounds and grounding straps as I had a similar probelm and one of my grounding staps was broken...
• Re: dash lights out when stereo not grounded?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:48:35 -0500
  Your tape deck needs to have it's own ground. Is there a dash connected light in it? If so, when the deck loses...
• Re: Bentley wiring diagram. Questions on how to read.
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:34:27 -0500
  ...I'm sure that pointer will help other >people! > >And the current track is ground? The current tracks are vertical. Ground is horizontal, at...
• Re: Rewiring sound system / common ground systems
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:58:25 -0400
  The vanagon had common ground speaker systems only through 1986. This was discussed extensively in a thread last October with many people reporting what...
• Syncro fuel sender ground fix
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:36:29 -0700
  A month or so ago I fixed my erratic fuel gauge by adding another ground at the sender. Tom ( Sodo on the samba) outlined...
• Re: Definitive on the 87 not using a common ground for rear speakers
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:52:45 -0400
  ...Starting with 1985, each rear speaker was wired to have its own ground. Mike '84 GL 7 pass '85 GL Westy Houlton, ME
• Re: Help!! Trouble with lights and signals
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:51:26 -0500
  The TS are seeking a ground through the other circuits. You either don't have the ground clean enough or you possibly cleaned the...
• Camper Light power and ground
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:51:07 +0000
  On the front interior light yes there are 2 ground wires. One is grounded full time and the other goes to the door switches...