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Subject:Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
From:mark drillock
Date:Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:02:58 -0700

You mean like the 83.5-85 Vanagon 1.9 Digijet injection grounding is
done. I wonder why they changed it for the next 7 years with the
Digifant?

Mark

Steve Delanty wrote:
> ..............
> I believe that part of the problem is that VW engineers violated
> one of the most important rules of good grounding tecniques
> by grounding the ECU and some of the sensors to the body of the
> vehicle and the O2 sensor (and who knows what else) at the engine.
> Good design practice would dictate grounding ALL of the EFI components
> including the ECU to the engine ONLY. (and most modern EFI systems
> go out of their way to do this)
> ..............