Us happy for you.

--
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

neil typed:
> Hi all.
>
> All this talk of grounds recently. Well...
>
> Did a pile of work to van. Redisigned some stuff, pedal cluster
> bushings, etc. etc. Anyone who has been really bored lately might have
> noticed the many postings I have made. Anyhow...
>
> Got the dash back on, cluster on, and it fired right up! Fan worked,
> newly designed foot flap works. Air recirc seems to work and stock
> vent controls seal WAY better. Me real happy. Then.....
>
> I turn on headlights. Yellow HB ind. stays on, green (sig) ind.
> faint...... with van off and turn signal on, yellow and green flash
> alternately.
>
> Me real sad. Me want divorce. So......
>
> I almost posted a long question yapping about pin 53b missing on wiper
> switch etc. Big theories about an intermittent connection on pin 53b
> while testing new wiper motor, green and yellow lights flashing, black
> holes,...... thought better of that and while following another wire,
> I found .......wait for it......
>
> an unplugged ground!
>
> Previously I had dutifully cleaned the two ground-stars on d-side
> where a bunch of grounds meet. I neglected to put one back on. All
> good now.
>
> Me happy!
>
> (btw,there is no pin 53b on the connector on the female socket to
> wiper motor switch on my van)
>
> Bottom line:
>
> for those hesitant to study wiring diagrams, (as I was) do it anyways.
>
> It eventually sinks in.
>
> i.e.
>
> I didn't know where the female mini spade on brown wire from pin 31 on
> rear defrost connected. I tried to follow it, but lost it. I read
> Bentley, again, saw that it ended at "68" looked up "68" (though hard
> to read in my copy) saw that "68" was within current track of  61-69:
> emergency flasher switch. Found tiny connector, plugged in, and now
> dispaly light works on flasher.
>
> Duh.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>