Tanks!  ........ uh,

oh gawd..... the gas tank......

;^))

On 4/9/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>

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Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil