[tcb] Re: What the...
- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:30:14 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
YOU FOUND IT!!!
The thing about VW's that drives the small boat marine electrician part of
me up a freaking WALL!
As I slowly rewire my VW's that is something I get rid of. The '69 that I'm
taking apart to use for the BradleyGT has positive run up to a stereo type
distribution block and from there individual wires go to the headlight
switch and the fuse block. The same is planned for the Rivi.
G2
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:14:39 -0500 Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I'm driving Murray all around town and every once in a while I feel a
> big miss, like the engine stops for just a second. Then, as I am pulling
> out of the grocery store parking spot the bus just stops. Nothing. No power
> at all. This has happened before and I usually get going by fiddling with
> the wires around the fusebox. Maybe a wire is loose, but I can't find it
> because suddenly, everything works and I am on my way.
>
> So, I get out my test light and I am checking where I don't have power.
> Basically nowhere. There are two posts that have power and that's all. I
> call Chuck. He tells me about how there are big power wires going into the
> fusebox and it should be there. Well, I start following big wires and I
> finally find a loose on way up under the dash at the friggin' headlight
> switch. And the bus starts.
>
> My question is why is the friggin' power routed through the headlight
> switch? The headlight switch should not disable the whole damn car! This is
> Günter Technology.
>
> After Hitler's geniuses produced the engine they were all going out for
> drinks, one of them said that there was still a bunch of work to do on
> inventing this car, but somebody said, "Let Günter do it". Günter was
> somebody's dim bulb nephew, who was working there for a summer job. That's
> why we get some of this stuff that just makes no sense, such as the
> accelerator linkage at the pedal and this damn wiring.
>
> Thanks, Günter.
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