What's good for the gander is good for the goose?

On 9/2/06, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the head's-up on that, Mike -- I'll take a gander at mine.
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> (What, exactly, /is/ a "gander"?)
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> 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
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> 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.
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> > 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
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