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• Back-up light problem solved
  Historical mailing list - Jack R.
  Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:30:38 -0400
  ...Now that you know your switch is fine, test the leads for power. Put a circuit tester on each of the two leads, while...
• Re: Vent wing seals? Anybody?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:56:45 +0000
  It's lead. It's lead. It's lead. I have had it in my hands. It's lead. Not pot metal, not zinc...
• Re: lead & valves
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:44:04 +0200
  ...When I filled up with leaded gas it stops. So I'm driving with relations of 1 leaded to 3 unleaded. My Vanagon is...
• Bypass, Transistor, Potable water tank pump circuit
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:40:15 -0700
  ...It appears the yellow and black leads on the board are both connected to the can (transistor). Those match the colors of the leads...
• Re: Best grease to use for CVs
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:42:43 -0500
  ...Websters says Graphite is , soft carbon used in lead pencils .............. confusing. So where is the lead in a lead pencil.? See note below from...
• O2-sensor results with digital voltmenter
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:48:56 -0500
  ...Voltmeter +-lead connected to lead from O2-sensor, -lead on bumper. Engine not run for three hours and O2-sensor not connected to lead...
• Re: lighted switch needed
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:05:27 -0500
  At 07:45 PM 2/9/2008, Mike wrote... >Every aftermarket radio I've ever installed had 2 power leads; one >smaller lead to...
• Re: Body Work 'Leading'
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:21:45 -0300
  Apologies to the list, a member posted for info on lead work, lost their address taken from Haynes manual: Porsche 911 - Guide to Purchase...
• Re: burned Bosch rotors and tune-up question
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 5 Nov 2003 06:07:26 EST
  ...The interface connection for the lead wires are different. If you install the wire leads for the 1.9 cap & coil in the 2...
• Re: Westy auxiliary battery (why not keep it going)
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:32:37 -0800 (PST)
  I'd like to second David Schwarze's advice to not drain a lead acid battery more than 80-75% full charge. Addition to...
• Re: Body work question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:11:25 -0800
  RE: "Lead Wiping" was pretty well replaced with Bondo and such many years ago. But I can recall watching a body man doing lead...
• Re: POR-15 [was: Rust Inhibit Kit (WAXOYL)]
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 01:26:32 EST
  ...A couple of years down the road, the red lead was muddy, but that was about all. That stuff seemed to stick really well...
• Sputtering along...suddenly
  Historical mailing list - Don Spence
  Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:16:39 -0700
  Check your spark plug leads. I had similar symptoms on a Mazda 626 yesterday. One of the high tension leads had disconnected from the...
• Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:45:30 -0400
  At 12:02 PM 6/22/2011, John Rodgers wrote: >One lead would go to the battery post on the starter, and the other...
• Re: Introductions and electrical questions
  Historical mailing list - Douglas Ford
  Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:16:26 -0500
  ...It is usually marked somehow (depends on the brand) BB, or aux, or something that shows it is different than the main power lead...
• Lead sealing plug for vent wings?
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:44:41 -0400
  Does anybody have any spare lead plugs, intact, for the vent wings for an '87 Vanagon? It appears they quit making them in 2008...
• Re: Trouble comes in threes
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:12:13 +0100
  David Clark wrote: > on removing the switch > the plastic had broken behind and the live lead was earthing out inside the > door pillar Actually...
• Re: Speaking of batteries...
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:58:39 -0700 (PDT)
  ...remember, the battery is made up of alternating lead and lead oxide plates, with sulfuric acid as an electrolyte. the electrolyte contains hydrogen ions...
• Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:36:47 -0400
  ...clip leads and those of a similar quality. They frequently become non-conducting where the clip is crimped to the wire. I generally end...
• Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank of your extra car or "parts vanagon"
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:47:45 -0700
  > > I've wondered for years why we still use lead acid batteries to start > our cars. Capacitance cells would be trouble when discharged but...
• Re: cyl head temp gauge
  Historical mailing list - H Steven Dolan
  Wed, 12 Oct 1994 15:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
  ...DC> David, All the ones I have ever seen have a factory installed set of leads. The length of these leads is included in...
• Re: Leaking starting battery
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:37:01 -0700
  ...Connect the positive lead of the ammeter to the disconnected ground lead. Connect the negative lead of the ammeter to the negative lead of...
• Re: WTB: Passenger power window switch
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:07:40 -0700
  ...Tha Vanagon use two different window >switches and each has different leads/ connectors attached. ( I >bought much cheaper ones that don't have the...
• Re: Best grease to use for CVs
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:25:38 -0400
  At 12:07 PM 6/27/2002, Stan Wilder wrote: >LEAD = Graphite >Its just plain old vanilla stuff. No, I'm sorry, it isn...
• Re: Best grease to use for CVs
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:57:47 +0100
  ...confusing. > So where is the lead in a lead pencil.? > See note below from Allistar. > > Thanks > Stan > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:24...
• 84 dont smoke no more
  Historical mailing list - Earl Smith
  Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
  ...That harness lead goes into the multipin >connector. For reasons known only to themselves, VW engineers made that harness >lead a co-axial cable...
• 84 don't smoke no more!
  Historical mailing list - Earl Smith
  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Wire coming from the O2 sensor on the 84 is a single lead that plugs into another lead coming out of the wiring harness...
• Oil Filter Worries (and other nuggets...)
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:45:39 -0700
  You would have a much easier time of "shutting off" the coil if you placed your permanent kill switch in the 12V lead that...
• Re: Battery Light
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:05:52 -0800
  ...Doing that could short out the power lead >> from the ECU relay. The way the PS switch works is it has one lead that...
• Re: interesting TRUE facts
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:53:47 -0500
  And the next mornig while defecating, was he able to" get the lead out of his ass"? All 700 of us can play this...
• Re: interesting TRUE facts
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Fri, 17 Aug 2001 07:51:11 -0700
  ...Food with a high acid > content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead > poisoning and death. This happened most...
• Re: HELP!!!
  Historical mailing list - David Greenland
  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:49:35 -0700
  My '91 van did almost the same thing (minus the black smoke), caused by one bad spark plug lead. Apparently a bad lead confuses...
• Re: OT - Toyota unintended acceleration
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:41:33 -0600
  ...Everyone is on the ROHS (lead free) bandwagon and I'm sure that's why Toyota's supplier used lead free in their sensor...
• Re: lighted switch needed
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:45:21 -0500
  Every aftermarket radio I've ever installed had 2 power leads; one smaller lead to battery + to keep the station presets and the clock...
• Temp 2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:25:20 -0700
  ...1) Disconnect the Temp-2 sensor? or 2) Disconnect and connect the 2 leads (are there 2 leads?) together? or 3) Disconnect and ground...
• solder type?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:27:15 -0800
  ...But do I have to use the toxic leaded solder? Haynes Auto Electrical Manual recommends 60/40 (tin/lead). But I'd feel better...
• Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:18:18 -0700
  ...And another five or six clip leads in the > package. NB - they have three sizes of clip leads, all useful and > reasonably well made...
• Re: Antenna replacement steps ? Help
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:05:49 EST
  ...4/ Disconnect the antenna lead at the radio. 5/ Attach a light gauge line (henceforth, pull cord) to the antenna lead. Tie it securely...
• starter solenoid post too short - help me!
  Historical mailing list - Matt Heydon
  Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:14:08 -0700
  ...Because of this I can't get both leads on the post because one lead has a cylindrical sleeve as it's end that...
• Re: Speaking of batteries...
  Historical mailing list - Jack Reed
  Thu, 20 Apr 1995 22:18:16 -0600 (MDT)
  ...deep breath: > > remember, the battery is made up of alternating lead and lead oxide plates, > with sulfuric acid as an electrolyte. > > the electrolyte contains...
• "Spare" Vanagon gas cap?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:18:44 -0800
  ...Jim The first lemming to lead his peers off the cliff is a bold and decisive leader.
• Re: Gas gauge is not showing anything
  Historical mailing list - Raceingcajun
  Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:59:17 -0500
  ...Removing the two leads at the tank sending unit. With the key on/engine off, check for voltage across those leads. If there is...
• Re: Fw: Vanagon oil pressure switches,or the lack thereof!!
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:29:00 -0600
  Lance, Look for a bare spot in the oil pressure lead insulation. Slight changes in the position of the engine may allow the lead...
• Leads on Refrigerator Relay?
  Historical mailing list - Gordon Smith
  Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:24:46 -0400
  ...The first two leads are clearly labeled and visible, but there are three others that don't seem to labeled, and are in a...
• Re: Vent wing seals? Anybody?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:43:33 -0700
  You might want to check if that part is actually lead. It may be zinc, which I think is more likely. Scrape a bit...
• Need fix for printed circuit board for instrument cluster
  Historical mailing list - Anders Hagstrom
  Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:12:12 -0700
  Hi all, does anyone have a solution of how to fix the PCB copper leads behind the speedo. The connectors that attaches to the...
• dizzy position and ht lead order !!?? help please !
  Historical mailing list - Paul Clarke
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:49:20 +0100
  >>>> Hi Folks having trouble setting distributor position and would like to double chek HT lead positions. i can get her running but its very...
• Stereo Wiring Help
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Jones
  Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:39:20 -0600
  ...Anyway, on the Alpine stereo I have a connection for a Battery Lead, Ground Lead and a Switched Power Lead (Ignition). Looking at the...
• Re: cyl head temp gauge
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Oct 94 18:30:03 EDT
  H Steven Dolan writes: > > > David, > > All the ones I have ever seen have a factory installed set of leads. The > length of these leads...
• Lead Acid Battery Bank and Solar Charging
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:54:15 -0700
  Hi All, I have a bank of 10 lead acid batteries that I would like to maintain with 100 watt solar panel. What configuration...
• '78 Chrysler Omni or Plymouth Pacer Sought
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:24:06 -0500
  If anyone has a lead on tone of these, I would appreciate a pointer. Of particular interest is the fact these vehicles had a...
• Re: 84 dont smoke no more (27 MPG??)
  Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
  Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:00:11 -0400
  ...That harness lead goes into the > multipin > >connector. For reasons known only to themselves, VW engineers made that > harness > >lead a co-axial cable...
• Re: Stereo Wiring Help
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:08:39 UT
  ...Anyway, on the Alpine stereo I have a connection for a Battery Lead, Ground Lead and a Switched Power Lead (Ignition). Looking at the...
• Hanging speakers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Grillo
  Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:32:17 -0400
  ...Any hi-power amp or receiver wants a seperate ground (negative lead) to each speaker. I had to run a speperate wire to each...
• Re: tachometer light fixture has been removed
  Historical mailing list - Robert Prouse
  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:49:49 -0400
  ...I broke the soldered on leads on the bulb, removed it, bought cheap and very similar bulbs (without the base) at an auto-parts...
• Re: Antenna replacement steps (Revised)
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:22:41 -0500
  ...Remove ashtray and plug antenna lead into radio There you go by far the simplest and no skills required at all for this one...
• RE: lead & valves
  Historical mailing list - Will Wood
  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:11:12 -0700
  ...When I filled >>up with leaded gas it stops. So I'm driving with relations of >>1 leaded to 3 unleaded. Lead lubricates and...
• RE: VOLTAGE STABILIZER
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Have you tried leaving the stabilizer unbolted, and just supported by its leads? Works for me... , , , , |\ |\ , |\ ____|\____________|\\_______________|________________|\______________|_____ ____|/__|________@__\|__|____O______|___|___@________|__|___|________|__|__ ___/|___|___|________|__|___|______@____|__|____@____|__|___|_______@___|__ __|_/_\_|___|_______@___|___|___________|__|___|____@___|___|___________|__ ___\|/__|___|___________|___|___________|__|___|________|__O____________|__ / O | Steve Maher smaher@gi.com...
• Re: Remote Starter Switch Wire-up for '88GL
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:26:50 -0400
  ...And another five or six clip leads in the > package. NB - they have three sizes of clip leads, all useful and > reasonably well made...
• Re: Another LED application
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:43:32 +0400
  ...One that is a reg-green 2 lead LED and a 3 lead version. Then there is a 3 color red-green and yellow...