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Subject:Re: Alternators correction!
From:Eric Caron
Date:Thu, 9 Apr 2020 18:49:04 -0400

Wow! 

This is a learning experience for me. 

This involves more wire updates then I first expected. 

Eric Caron 
Also with a 85 a really nice vanagon year!

Eric 

> On Apr 9, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@ICLOUD.COM> wrote:
> 
> I have a new cable too waiting for install. Why do I think I need to drop the tank as well??
> 
> Jeff
> 85 westfalia 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Yup
>> 
>> On my old 82 westy I ran a new cable.
>> 
>> And I have a good thick cable ready to go for the syncro . Why don’t I install it? 
>> 
>> Because I keep thinking the engine is coming out soon and I can get to the starter easily and do a good job.
>> 
>> Paralyzed by the notion of perfect over good :-)
>> 
>> Alistair 
>> 
>>> On Apr 9, 2020, at 1:50 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> Alternator 14.39
>>>>> Battery 13.91  
>>> 
>>> That's more drop than you want to see in the cable.
>>> 
>>> Yrs, 
>>> d