Great idea-a cheat sheet for dummies to carry on the road?
VanagonWiki article?

Someone?

Mr. BZ-I'd print one to go w/ my heater activation lever sheet

On Jul 14, 2008, at 8:16 PM, mdrillock wrote:

> In my experience there are only a handful of common electrical
> failures
> on Vanagons. Ok, maybe 2 handfuls. I guess someone should compile a
> list
> along with a quick check for determining if a given problem a Vanagon
> owner has is due to one of the common ones like yours was.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> Paul Connelly wrote:
>> Thanks for the help guys,
>>
>> I will try to get around to changing them all over at some point,
>> Scott. For the moment I took the connectors all off and the Multi
>> Point Grounds out cleaned everything up and tightened all of the
>> spades and reconnected everything. Fan now works perfectly on low and
>> high!
>>
>> Still no head lights but that's a job for tomorrow....
>>
>> Have a great evening,
>>
>> Cheers, Paul.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
>> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com <mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    if you are talking about that multi-ground point with push-on
>>    spade terminals...........
>>    way mo betta to convert them to screw and eye grounding terminals.
>>    Be sure to put a star type pointy washer betwixt the wire terminal
>>    and the body of the van.
>>    scott
>>
>>
>>    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Connelly"
>>    <vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM
>> <mailto:vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM>>
>>    To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>>
>>    Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:43 PM
>>    Subject: Re: Radiator Fan Resistor Question
>>
>>
>>
>>        Hey Mark,
>>
>>        You're right - had to crimp up a jumper wire, but using a
>>        parallel ground
>>        turned the fan. So bad earth - looks like it is the furthest
>>        away of the
>>        second ground post behind the fuse panel, Maybe that's the
>>        headlight issue
>>        too - I guess its time to take them all off clean them up and
>>        re apply. I
>>        did try each crimp terminal with a meter to a separate ground
>>        earlier, and
>>        didn't see any problems, but I guess its there... Well -
>>        that's the next
>>        couple of hours...
>>
>>        Thanks Again,
>>
>>        Paul.
>>
>>        Could they make it any tighter to get in there!!!
>>
>>        On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:03 PM, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net
>>        <mailto:mdrillock@cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>>            What you just wrote suggests the bad ground for the fan as
>>            I mentioned at
>>            the end of my reply. Either that or you have multiple
>>            problems. The ground
>>            can be intermittent..............
>>
>>
>>
>>                .......
>>
>>
>>
>>                    Another common failure point is the ground lug for
>>                    the brown wire coming
>>                    from the fan. It plugs into the grounding star
>>                    behind the main relay
>>                    panel.
>>                    Many grounds plug in there and corrosion is a
>>                    major issue on them.
>>
>>
>>                    Mark
>>