Robert,

The item you are describing is a resistor for the cooling fan.

Ric

At 12:47 AM 3/18/02 +0100, Robert Steven Fish wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I need an ID on a very odd looking component of my '87 GL.
>
>Standing in front of the car, grill and headlights removed...
>
>Located to the right of where the drivers side headlight assembly sits...
>Between the light fixture area, and the silver antenna tube... Green,
>ceramic-like, tube-like thing....
>
>Shown in the photo below.
>
>http://www.fishforms.com/Vanagon/NameThatPart.jpg
>
>It is driving me crazy...  Thanks!!
>
>RSF
>
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>Robert S. Fish
>Salzburg, Austria
>1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
>1987 Golf Cabriolet
>1991 Golf