In my 90 Westy I had the relay behind the driver's seat ticking madly.
This relay is to power the fridge, light and water pump.  It only
ticked when I was driving, not at idle or fast idle.  It turned out it
was not grounding properly at the ignition key.  Once grounded
properly the ticking stopped.

When I was trying to find out where the ticking noise was coming from
I was searching under the dash.  It turned out that the relay was
projecting its ticking noise from under the seat towards the
dashboard.  I needed a helper to crawl around the van while we were
driving around to finally isolate where the ticking was coming from.

Laurence Smith
Hamilton, ON
90 Westy (fanumbos)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Don & Christina Preston
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Ticking ECU again..
>
>
> I posted this question once already, but didn't hear back.
>
> Ya see, I've had my rear bench out for the last couple of
> days while I do
> some interior work, and I've noticed that the ECU
> constantly ticks when the
> engine is running. Is this normal? Or is something shorting out?
>
> TIA!
>
> Don Preston
>     '87 ASI Wolfy GL
>         ~Betsy the Mp3 Bus~
>             Seattle, WA 98052
>