Well said.
Vanagon wiring was pathetic to start with.How many have heater fan switch
permanently in position 3?
Ground screws had only threads to contact body.Noticed as soon as i bought
my first Vanagon.
Rust almost "disconnected" grounds.
Dremel tool fixed it quickly and much larger area and higher pressure made
much better ground connection.In fact i got 2 ground straps in back.
That spade terminal barely holding mating part on starter doesn't help
either.
Some squeezing helps.Wish there was stud instead.
I am happy no longer having wasserboxer' pathetic looking engine wiring
With Subaru engine it looks and functions like modern vehicle
Leon
86 SyncroSubTransporter...soon

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:54:45 -0500, Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
wrote:

> Take a look at this:
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/starter_story.htm
> -----------------------------
> what a bunch of snake oil in my opinion.  in 15 years of driving and
> working on vws i have never had a starter fail.  on top of that i have
> never owned a car with less than 100,000 on the clock.  proper vehicle
> service and trouble shooting is what this problem that gowesty is
> rattling on about is fixed by.  but gowesty can't work on the whole
> countries vanagons since they are in cali so why not sell a magical fix
> via the interenet.  the real problem like so many problems on older
> vehicles is a failing ground system.
>
> lucas says the following:
>
> Replacing the starter with a rebuilt Bosch unit would remedy the problem
> for a while, but sure enough within a year or two max, the SAME EXACT
> problem would return. For years I thought about this problem and wondered
> why.
>
> thats because he disturbed the ground system enough for the starter to
> get
> a half assed ground for a couple of more years.  then when the oxidation
> built up again that stopped the starter from working properly.  the real
> solution is not a bunch of relays and fancy pants starters.  its to
> inspect the aged factory wiring and bring that back up to snuff.  then
> your
> starter will work fine.  on real rusty stuff here in the midwest the
> super
> cure is to run dedicated grounds to things and not rely on chassis
> grounds
> going through a rusty high resistance body.
>
> jonathan
>

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