list:

although there were no symptoms of a bad ground, or obvious corrosion ('84
gl), i stripped and soldered together all those ground wires, with an
additional  length of 10 gage wire terminated on the free end in a ring
connector, and just made a single ground point, using also a star washer
and copper anti-sieze compound. nylon ties were also handy to ensure
strain relief.

i kept the star connectors for posterity, one of which looked like it had
become home to a spider.

dan

On Sat, 30 May 2009 15:28:26 -0700, Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
wrote:

>'87 GL: I pulled the two under-dash 'crown' ground points to clean and
>re-set them and this is what I saw:
>
>
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>http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/WiringDamage#
><http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/WiringDamage>
>
>
>
>I guess I'm just lucky the yellow plastic didn't melt all the way through.
>Do y'all suppose that corrosion/bad connection was sufficient to create
>enough resistance to cause that much heat? There is a small battery drain
>but I'm not aware of any shorts or shorting episodes that would have
caused
>that.
>
>Was the fat brown wire connected to the farther crown (I may have pulled
it
>off while I was getting the crowns out)? Where's the other end of that
wire?
>
>
>I may pull and replace the entire thing if I can; there's no telling what
>other damage it has. Ugly... not good. : (
>
>
>
>Cya,
>
>Robert