On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Austin wrote:

> Recently while splicing a generic 3-wire O2 sensor onto the stock loom I
> couldn't get the solder to 'wet out' on to the wires (using commercial
> grades of solder & paste flux).  What I did notice was that the wires are
> *much* stiffer than ordinary copper wires usually are; they are silver
> colored as if pre-tinned, but trying to scrape down to bare/fresh copper
> didn't work-it was almost as if the wire was stainless steel!
> Austin
     Stainless steel wire is not uncommon. It is used in bad enviroments.
I have not seen this in the Vanagon, but maybe someone else was in
there. Ether spot weld the wires together or crimp tool.
               Eric