Hey Jeff, tell me the big number on the top and I'll go and look at Dixie's
panel.

I havwe to leave around 3:30 for a guitar playing gig but I could check
tomorrow...

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeff Hartman
<jeffreyleehartman@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks so much for the information from all of you.  Just wanted you
> to know that I did check all the references I had at hand and could
> find on the web before putting this question out.  I do not take
> lightly the amount of time list members donate to helping the
> mechanically challenged like me.  I did go through every page of the
> 1986Vanagon/Transporter owners manual.  Unless I am missing the
> reference, the only information I could find was on page 85 is
> regarding the fuse purpose and location...nothing about the relays.  I
> also checked my bentley, but am afraid mine only goes through 1985 (I
> know that is negligent on my part), and the fuse box in my 86 is
> entirely different than shown on pg 97.11, but it fits the exact
> description provided by Jeff Seaman and Joel Walker.  The mystery is
> that they describe 6 installed relays in the main fuse/ relay box,
> while I have 8.  I am starting to wonder if two of these additional
> relays are just extras inserted by the PO as spares.  I have had this
> vanagon since 1995.  So I am starting to remove the two screws out of
> the fuse box to see those other positions are connected to wiring or
> nothing. This vehicle has a lot of things added on to it by the PO who
> had it converted by Automotive Services Industries.  But I always
> assumed the electrical acessories like the furnace were on separately
> fused circuits, and did not use anything in the fuse box.
>
> Incidentally, the reason I was distracted from my fuse and relay
> cleaning exercise in the first place was that my wife choose that
> moment to remind me that I could have turned our vanagon into the cash
> for clunkers program, rather than messing with it now.  Contrary to
> her urging,I rejected that option, because I am sentimental about all
> the great family adventures we have had in this vehicle all across BC,
> Yukon and Alaska.
>
> Thanks for helping me keep this memory alive.  This list is the only
> reason I have been able to own this vanagon for over a dozen years.
>  Jeff Hartman
> Juneau, AK
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, neil N<musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jeff
> > Hartman<jeffreyleehartman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This is a humbling question because I have to confess why I do not
> >> know where in the front fuse box this relay belongs.  I was pulling
> >> out fuses and relays to to check the contacts and make sure they are
> >> connected securely.  I had just started with the left side of the
> >> relays when I was distracted. By the time I looked back a couple
> >> minutes later I was stumped, because there were three possible
> >> locations open for the single relay.  The relays in my 86 vanagon are
> >> arranged in two rows with 6 locations in each row (one location has no
> >> connectors).  The top left (position 1) and 2nd one from the left
> >> (position 2) and the first from the left in the 2nd row (position 7)
> >> are open.  This relay fits in any of the slots.  While it was out, I
> >> checked out the headlights, tail lights signals and brakes.  The car
> >> started and ran fine.  I am stumped   This was the first and only
> >> relay I had removed, and I stuck it in the 2nd row (position 7).
> >> Information on the relay follows:
> >> 12 V, 40 A Hella
> >> 4RA  909872-01
> >>
> >> I am hoping it isnt something like a relay for the fan, which would
> >> melt my engine on my next ride.
> >> Jeff Hartman - Juneau, AK
> >> 1986 Vanagon 2.1 2wd manual
> >>
> >
> >
> > Would the owners manual shed some light?
> >
> > If not hopefully an '86 owner will chime in.
> >
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"
> >
> > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
> >
>

--
Beverley Anne de Villiers   April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009

Jake

1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"

Crescent Beach, BC

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