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• Re: Alternators correction! - VOLTAGE monitoring
  Historical mailing list - Jack R
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 17:10:17 -0400
  ...Alternators correction! Yup On my old 82 westy I ran a new cable. And I have a good thick cable ready to go for...
• Re: 91 Westfalia ground points, battery charging amps
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:41:19 -0400
  ...this would be regular lead acid batteries. (Assume good grounds/cables and full alternator voltage getting to the batteries, which I understand is not...
• Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:26:29 -0400
  ...Also a big ground cable at the front of the transmission. Not sure about the 2.1s. Jay This communication is for use by...
• 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...
• Re: Ultimate Fix #1
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:03:02 -0400
  ...hefty cable between the alternator case and chassis. Also cleaned the alternator's adjustment bracket's contact surfaces. I had already added grounds from...
• Charging system...
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:04:30 -0600
  ...Shut off engine, reconnected cable, and tried to restart - dead. Battery was purchased new May 99. Alternator is original. Any ground points I could...
• Re: Starter Gone?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:20:52 -0700
  ...transmission ground or added your ground strap; you can use a jumper cable (much common sense required) to bypass the main battery cable if...
• Re: Timing light power source - confirmation
  Historical mailing list - Randy Huyck
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:36:39 -0800
  ...terminal 15 on the coil & ground to engine. - Connect it to the positive terminal on the alternator and ground to engine. Can I assume...
• Re: Is something killing my starters?
  Historical mailing list - Michael McSwain
  Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:01:38 +0000
  ...a local ground WHILE CRANKING would be > a useful data point. Do the same thing at the battery end of the cable > & see how...
• Re: GoWesty's Gear Reduction Starter
  Historical mailing list - Bill Witz
  Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:44:37 -0500
  ...I used heavy wire for postive cable and heavy plastic to cover wire were it was needed so it would not ground out by...
• Re: charing voltage to battery - 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:26:04 -0500
  ...the 85 Vanagon has the last year of the 'small' battery to starter cable of course . 86 is considerably fatter. trans ground cale looks...
• Re: Ground strap from out of nowhere
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:40:45 -0800
  ...I tried to hook this ad-hoc tranny ground strap to a bolt where the fuel injection stuff seems to be grounded (near the...
• Re: bemused by wiring
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:18:01 -0800
  ...I just happened to think of grounds, and put a battery jumper cable from the engine to the battery - bingo, it was working again...
• Re: Something wrong ...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 2 Sep 2012 14:25:21 -0700
  ...The large cable is the starting cable during starting and then it becomes the charging cable after the engine is running. Mark HotelWestfalia wrote...
• Re: Timing light power source - confirmation
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:47:03 -0800
  ...terminal 15 on the coil & ground to engine. > - Connect it to the positive terminal on the alternator and ground to > engine. > >Can I assume...
• Re: Installing AMP in Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:47:27 -0400
  ...ground potential is different at your radio than it is at your amp, forcing current to flow through the shields of your audio cables...
• Re: Battery Compartment ground cable; Was: Dead (almost) in the garage
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:25:32 -0700
  Yes. Get it out of the garage and you can easily catch the (not so) captive nut w/ a pair of Vise-Grips� through...
• Re: Thanks and a "Service Bulletin"
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:52:17 EDT
  ...Disconnecting the battery ground, I took the cable off the alternator end so I could rerout it and temporarilly repair it with about five...
• Re: Is something killing my starters?
  Historical mailing list - Michael McSwain
  Sun, 10 Jul 2016 04:28:28 +0000
  ...a local ground WHILE CRANKING would be >> a useful data point. Do the same thing at the battery end of the cable >> & see how...
• Re: Symptoms of a bad starter?
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:54:08 -0400
  ...Symptoms of a bad starter? >> > >> > the old cables are not "useless" they are still providing some >> > conductivity, so adding new cables to the old...
• Timing light power source - confirmation
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:54:09 -0800
  ...terminal 15 on the coil & ground to engine. - Connect it to the positive terminal on the alternator and ground to engine. Can I assume...
• Re: Bluestar project progress-small problems
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 2 May 2013 20:21:23 -0700
  ...I think it will work just fine if you don't even connect the brown ground wire.. I think that goes to ground anyway...
• Re: Advice-New Ignition Switch/Cig Lighter/Fan Switch
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:45:50 -0600
  ...Starter engages when the key is turned, but turns the engine too > slowly. > Here poor cables and/or ground connections can be the cause...
• Re: E-brake cable + turn signal unit
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 11 Feb 1995 11:13:05 -0500
  ...The emergency cable on the driver side >works fine, but the one on the passengers side wont bite at all. >What can I do...
• Re: Multimeter help UPDATE-77 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:42:55 -0700
  ...I took off the positive cable and removed the red + wire to the VW diagnostic plug at the back thinking it might be grounding...
• Re.: 87 Vanagon hesitation continues
  Historical mailing list - Kay O Fremgen
  Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:18:46 -0400
  ...This wire measures 182k ohms resistance to ground wit a vw ECU and 220k with a bosch ECU plugged to digifant cable. With the...
• Re: Engine Ground voltage drop under load, please help diagnose.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:32:08 -0400
  ...I guess I can do better with a proper dedicated ground cable . > > I would rather avoid that option thought because I would like to...
• charing voltage to battery - 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:37:35 -0700
  ...the 85 Vanagon has the last year of the 'small' battery to starter cable of course . 86 is considerably fatter. trans ground cale looks...
• Re: Power drain
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:08:35 EDT
  ...Cooper > Brzytwa, Quick & McCrystal > 900 Skylight Office Tower > Cleveland, OH 44113 > John, disconnect the ground and hook a test light from the disconnected cable...
• Ground strap from out of nowhere
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:16:36 -0800
  ...this battery cable-looking-thing to the transmission. Browsing through vanagon.com, I found a bulletin about installing an auxilliary transmission ground strap to...
• Re: Continuing Engine Troubles
  Historical mailing list - John Huguenard
  Mon, 13 May 1996 06:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
  ...So with the >knowledge that the O2 circuit was somehow grounded, I started checking and Gerry, I think that might just do it. This...
• Re: 85 gl still running rich at vw shop.
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:40:27 -0800
  Doesn't the Bosch O2 sensor use a coaxial cable, with a ground braid on the outside and the signal wire on the inside...
• Re: O2 Sensor Wire
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:49:32 -0600
  ...The guitar cable sounds interesting. Are you talking about the same cable I use between my Strat and the amp or the shielded cable...
• Re: ADBQ
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Sun, 4 May 2003 10:59:29 -0700
  ...the auxiliary battery uses the identical grounding method as the starting battery, using the same battery ground cable assembly. Here is an old photo...
• Re: Q: Battery Disconnect Sequence?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:59:34 -0700
  ...By undoing the ground terminal first, you remove any danger of a short while working on the positive lead. Likewise, attach the ground terminal...
• Re: 1984 Speedos
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Fitterer
  Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:50:40 +0000
  ...My cable is going bad? How would one check the possibility of poor Engine/transmission ground? > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:20:20...
• Re: 87 Lack of power
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:30:30 -0800
  ...Many suggest that anytime an issue comes up in this area, it is wise to clean all grounds. Additionally the coaxial cable that carries...
• Re: Lags at low revs + BAD mileage
  Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
  Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:45:08 -0800
  ...eeeeeck! This Ground-Wire exits the ECU, separate from the Main ECU Cable if memory serves me right. Just enough wire to snip and...
• Ultimate Starter Fix--
  Historical mailing list - UWannaDeaL2
  Mon, 12 May 2003 20:15:05 -0400
  ...Check the starter primary ..The thick cable that goes from the starter to the pos battery or (is it the other way around..only...
• Re: Normal Transmission "Problems"? Speedo Cable?
  Historical mailing list - Steven Denis
  Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:47:41 EST
  ...give up and you'll start leaking 90wt oil on the ground and clutch.... Steve "Hey! nice Jeep, Mister! " "Look kid, it's NOTAJEEP! "
• Re: Subject: Starter Help!
  Historical mailing list - chris and/or ruth
  Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:28:16 -0800
  ...Starter Help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check your ground. Put a heavy jumper on frame(not the engine)�to the starter body and try.� You can have all...
• Re: 91 Vanagon will not start..? FIXED
  Historical mailing list - Shannon Mitchell
  Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:56:02 -0400
  ...Are you connecting both cables to the battery posts or is the negative jumper wire grounded to the body somewhere? If you are connecting...
• 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...
• Re: Which battery terminal off first?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 16 May 2017 12:55:55 -0700
  ...Connect the positive cable to each battery first, then the negative cable. This minimizes sparking, and the negative cable can be connected to the...
• Re: Symptoms of a bad starter?
  Historical mailing list - Ry
  Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:15:40 -0500
  ...Symptoms of a bad starter? >>> > >>> > the old cables are not "useless" they are still providing some >>> > conductivity, so adding new cables to the old...
• Re: recap (still not fixed) Re: Update (not fixed...) Re: FIXED? (and, advice needed...) (was: Re: low voltage, starter running intermittently, but alternator is okay?)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:08:51 -0800
  ...I use the jumper cables for the test. If it doesn't crank then, you're either not getting sufficient juice from the main...
• Re: stereo speaker wire colors?
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:46:16 -0700
  ...Its a metal box with heat > sinks, powered by a hot and a ground. The cable connects via a strange > plug, sort of like...
• Re: 1987 Oxygen Sensor Wiring 2.1 liter Digifant MV engine
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:30:54 -0500
  ...cable... >however I have never seen a shielded cable in a car before (I"ve seen it >often in cable TV coaxial cables, and...
• Re: 91 Westy, low idle stall, low power ....help! (LENGTHY REPLY)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Frost
  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:09:42 -0700
  ...the inner conductor, the signal is grounded and the voltage is ZERO. You will find the O2 cable in the same harness that feeds...
• '64 Single Electric Blues of my own
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:14:22 -0800 (PST)
  ...Well, the truck would start, but when I removed the cables, it would just die. So I left the cables connected for a while...
• Re: HELP QUICK! NOT STARTING
  Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
  Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:35:24 -0800
  ...cables and terminals for good condition, check the ground strap at the trans. mount. Check voltage from the switch at the solinoid. If all...
• Re: 1984 Speedos
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:46:30 -0700
  ...I could see a problem in the cluster causing current to flow through the speedo cable, but how would a engine or transmission ground...
• Re: Travel Weirdness (warning; tires. ;)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:23:43 -0700
  ...15:20 Todd Last <rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET> > napisał(a): > > > Try Detoxit on the cable connector and ground. Also some have reported > improvement by adding...
• Re: IT is still bucking ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:12:45 -0800
  ...I checked all my ground wires and cleaned up all the ground conenctions. It turns out that the braided wire to the left head...
• Re: Head (gasket) fix
  Historical mailing list - Mark Hudgik
  Sat, 4 Apr 1998 06:57:45 -0500
  Skip the braided cable, check your FLAPS for a black insulated ground cable with a stud terminal on each end. Get one long enough...
• Re: Where's the other end of my broken ground strap?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 2 Apr 2017 17:08:36 -0400
  ...which has the same effect as #2 if the alternator B+ cable is in good shape. The 16 terminal and the circled terminal (if...
• 3 Questions
  Historical mailing list - Seth C. Bruggeman
  Sun, 6 Dec 1998 14:43:05 -0500
  ...cable? 2. Headlights: My headlights are far too dim for safe operation. I figure this must have something to do with a loose ground...
• A starting battery to starter cable replacement story
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Poole
  Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:34:26 -0400
  ...grounds my van still cranked slowly when hot, if it turned over at all. I put off replacing the battery to starter cable until...
• Re: Trans. ground wire and fuel injectors
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:27:02 -0400
  ...ground wire and fuel injectors i am wondering what kind of cable to use to replace my tranmission to chasis ground. also, what is...
• Re: Water Tank pump wire connections?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:04:33 -0700
  ...The polarity of the electrical cables on the original pump is on the cover next to the pump cable and output of the pump...