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Subject:Re: Pic of melting wiring in my Air cooled '81. How's yours? --- :^)
From:Justin M. Mayrand
Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:30:09 -0500

There is supposed to be a heat shield. I made one for my AFC (with
similarly burned wires) from a piece of steel stovepipe. The Bentley
shows a shield.   ...JMM

1980 Westy "WAIT4ME"

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:01 AM, neil N wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/rearwiring
>
> Like the page says. I repaired mine with solder, shrink tube, tape,
> tape and cover.
>
> No big deal. I'm sure others have seen it before, but thought I'd post
> for those who haven't inspected the wiring in their engine bay.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil.
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

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