Actually no. I wasn't referring to that PCV heater fuse. My mistake.

I originally thought to p-mail David about this, then changed my mind.
Should have included this quote from David Beierl:

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> ..... you might want to fuse the red B+
> lead from the terminal post inside the wiring box that feeds the relay box.
> Doing that would have saved my harness when something happened to that wire
> on mine.  I never determined precisely what happened, but it was clear that
> that particular wire got extremely hot (along with the wiring in the relay
> box and the relay box cover and the said B+ lead.).   I've found 7.5A
> sufficient, perhaps even 5A.

I installed the new fuse as per this suggestion from David.

Neil.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/2012 3:16 PM, neil n wrote:
>
> I guess the only downside is that if the fuse fails (poor quality,
> time, flux capacitor wave leakage), the van stops
>
> Hi.,..if I'm following you right ..
> the fuse for the PCV heater element blowing won't make the engine not run.
> It's totally a minor embellishemt..
> not a lot of need for that heater thingey usualy.
>
> both ignition and fuel injection are very 'un'-fused in a waterboxer
> vanagon.
>

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