Thanks for the head's-up on that, Mike -- I'll take a gander at mine.

(What, exactly, /is/ a "gander"?)

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

Mike Collum wrote:
> In my '85 Westy, I opened the black box on the firewall in the engine
> compartment ... the one where the charging wires from the alternator run
> to a standoff ... and found that where the two wires from the alternator
> are crimped to a single ring connector there was corrosion and the wires
> showed evidence of overheating.
>
> The charging wires on 1.9s are too small (bigger wires were used in
> later models) so I added wire straight from the alternator to the
> starter terminal.
>
> I sometimes use a number of electrical consumers and I have installed an
> aux battery, all of which cause the alternator (and its wires) to work
> harder.
>
> It wouldn't hurt for you with 1.9s to check inside your black boxes for
> a similar problem, especially if you've added a battery.
>
> Mikel
> '84 GL 7 pass
> '85 GL Westy
>