Check all your battery connections.  With the long battery cables that the
Vanagon uses, the slightest current drain can result in a BIG voltage drop.
(or the other way around - I can never remember)  :-)

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy "Klaus"
Santa Barbara, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Finegan" <PateccaFoto@aol.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: 1989 Vanagon

> We went to turn over the vanagon the other day and it clicked (like a dead
> battery), then could smell electrical.  Tested the starter and the
selonoid.
> Seems to be the selonoid, but don't want to replace it if it's the
starter.
> Has anyone every come across this before?  Thanks
>
> Rebecca