>From: <GMBulley@aol.com>
>Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:03:59 EDT
>To: bartnik@HOTMAIL.COM, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: FI Weirdness -- please help
>
>In a message dated 98-07-02 02:37:36 EDT, bartnik@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< We expect there is some sort of power feedback loop running
> thru the double relay, though we are having a bit of trouble finding
out
> where it's coming from. >>
>
>There is a constant "hot" wire from the positive terminal (sees the
glass as
>half full) to terminal 88y on the double relay. From what you describe,
it is
>shorting out to terminal 88d or possibly 88c.
>
Quite possible.  There is also power to terminal 88z on the relay at all
times.  I would not be surprised to find a short in that bundle
somewhere.

>You will find it to be a short, or the contacts in the relay are
sticking, and
>need cleaning. Just remember, on Bosch AFC Injection it is RARELY the
ECU.
>
Yes, I know it's rarely the ECU.  BTW, it's not the contacts in the
relay sticking -- we put in a known good double relay from a different
(running) Bus and got the same problem.

Thanks a lot!

Sean Bartnik
Fairfax, Virginia
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'81 Vanagon L Westfalia
'74 Karmann Ghia convertible

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