I've seen ground wires in that general location on Digijet systems attached
to the AFM.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: neil n
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:52 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Mysterious loose ground wire

It's possible no one answered your last request because you didn't put
include the model year, colour of wire, whether or not is has a
connector.

      :)

They are .... ?

A pic is really handy too though I could be accused of posting too many.
;)

The starter body is the negative connection to frame so there isn't a
negative wire to the starter.

Neil.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know what that ground wire attached to the coolant hoses on
> the passenger side just in front of the firewall goes to?
>
> --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
>
> From: Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Mysterious loose ground wire
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 11:02 AM
>
>
> While doing a general tune-up in my van today, I pulled off the air
> cleaner and noticed a heavy guage wire haning from just in front of (front
> meaning front of van) the firewall where the coolant hoses are mounted. Is
> that to ground the starter or what? It seems to have been like that for a
> while.
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks
> Steve
>

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