David,

I'm sure you had accumulated enough points with the Vanagon Guardian Angel
by answering questions such as "How big a fuse would that lead require?".  I
wouldn't even know how to calculate that value :-(

Thanks as always,
John Meeks
'91 Multivan
Northern Michigan

Vanagon Rescue Squad
www.vanagonauts.com

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:00 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>wrote:

> At 08:31 AM 6/14/2010, John Meeks wrote:
>
>> Do you have any idea how/where the bad current originated?
>>
>
> That entire harness is powered from the 30 terminal post in the wiring box
> on the firewall (for people following the regulator external sensing thread,
> it's the wire that needs to be removed from there and fed instead from a
> source that's not between the alternator and the battery).
>
> It seems more than likely that the P/S pressure switch lead was involved
> (very "clever," they're feeding a signal input straight from the ECU relay
> output) since that lead was burnt clear to the switch.  How or what it
> shorted to is a mystery to me.
>
> The Vanagon Guardian Angel saved my butt by having this happen 0.82 miles
> after a 700 mile trip and six days before a 1500 mile trip, and only charged
> me the cost of a harness for the lesson that fusing the 30 lead is like a
> tetanus shot -- it's not likely to be needed, but the consequences if you
> need it and don't have it are dreadful.  And it's not as though I didn't
> know about it, just didn't have a round tuit.  Well I got one, stuck where
> the sun don't shine.
>
> Yours,
> DAvid
>
>
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