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Subject:Re: Was: '89 Carat .... Seattle ... Now: It's in Edmonds WA
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:01:35 -0500

Once you figure out where to put it, you still have to get a fuse with the
proper mi/mph rating...

 But seriously folks, I have worked on three malfunctioning instrument
clusters recently.  All suffered from corrosion (not visible) at the big
connector and at the terminals of the fuel and temperature gauges and
clock.  Looked fine, but non-conductive.

Larry A.
too many vanagons "awaiting restoration"

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote:

> So where is the fuse to make the speedometer/odometer work?
>
> Ok it's not Friday.
>
> The asking price is a very reasonable down payment for this vehicle. With
> all the little issues the real question is what issue actually took it out
> of service?
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Larry Alofs
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 9:32 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Was: '89 Carat .... Seattle ... Now: It's in Edmonds WA
>
> Looks nice.  Don't find them like that here in the upper midwest.
>   I don't think that fuses are going to solve the instrument problems.
> Don't understand about the 1" ball.
>
> Larry A.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:27 AM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not that far from me and I'm tempted, but importing, taxes, no
> > room, meh.
> >
> > Too bad. It would make a killing DD.
> >
> > The ad reads like it's forthcoming and legit too.
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:24 PM,  <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
> > > wow..the bumpers arent even effed up and it still has some jumpseat
> > > sidepanels !!
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil n
> >
> > 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly  http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp
> >
> > '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named.
> >
> > '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> > Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:
> >
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-
> > engines
> >
>
>