mike:

the post below may be right on.

sounds like a roughly 100 mA draw, which would be easy to measure. with a
12 V system, this implies something like a 100 ohm resistance, which is a
relatively low grade short. i'm very curious to see how this is resolved,
because i have an almost identical  situation ongoing with a 16 year old
non-vanagon vehicle.

dan

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:53:00 -0700, Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Could be the fuse box itself. I had a problem very similar to this in
my '85 Jetta years back - I
>kept pulling fuses trying to find the current drain, and when I found it,
couldn't trace it outside
>the fusebox. Swapped the fusebox and it was fine for another 10 years.
The late model
>Vanagons use the same or very similar fusebox with flat brass conductors -
 I'm told moisture
>can lead to minute current leaks with age.
>
>On 25 Sep 2007 at 21:16, Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>