I think the bad fuse panel didn´t cause the engine fire,
and the engine fire didn´t cause the fuse panel meltdown.

IF the engine fire caused a hard short in the rear of the van, the fuse
would have blown and spared the panel.

I estimate these are two damages independent from each other.
D15...digging out my XLS...: ignition coil. Nothing that should draw too
much current anyway? This is the first time I hear of of D15 being
notorius?!

Regards
Raimund

Am 19.02.2022 um 20:32 schrieb Eric Caron:
> Wow!
>
>          this would be a fun project.  Always sad to hear of a loss of a van, But, always good when the van is salvaged to keep others alive and healthy.
>
> Keep sharing your findings.
>
> Eric
>
>> On Feb 19, 2022, at 12:58 PM, Alistair Bell<albell@SHAW.CA>  wrote:
>>
>> I recently bought half of a van with my neighbour. Salvage title. A restored 86 westy that had an engine fire. A lot of work went into that van, sad to see it ruined.
>>
>> Anyway, I pulled the fuse panel the other week and found a good or is it bad? example of the notorious D15 connector burn.
>>
>> https://shufti.blog/2022/02/19/vanagon-another-d15-connector-failure/
>>
>> It’s a bad one, it should have, by rights, stopped the van. I doubt the engine fire shorted the circuit causing this much damage. The corresponding white connector on the wiring loom was really badly burned. Appeared to me to be chronic heat via bad contact .
>>
>> Alistair