trouble shooting Boyko style (long, but OnTopic)

[Indiana_Red@hotmail.com (Ken B)]

Maybe he'll also get to know the other beaning of the word "battery"

Ken 
1979 Scirocco  "McFly"
16v conversion "...it's working....It's WORKING...!"
tracing electrical gremlins now...
VORTEX:  "Indiana Red"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wes Brockway" <kywes@bellsouth.net>
To: "'Cathy Boyko'" <losinit@usa.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: RE: trouble shooting Boyko style (long, but OnTopic)


> Agreed, that is what make 'Roccos fun, they always keep us guessing, I
> know mine does. Perhaps it is the never ending puzzle waiting to be
> solved that is the attraction.
> 
> Shoot, now I've done gone and started waxing elephantly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Cathy Boyko
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:52 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: trouble shooting Boyko style (long, but OnTopic)
> 
> 
> Okay, the car has appeared to be overheating since I put a oil new temp
> sensor in. So I pull the new sensor out and confirm the number is right,
> screw it back in and start checking the fan (it hadn't been doing the
> after run). Jumper high / low, both functions work but there is some
> suspicious looking green copper peeking out. So, either the thermoswitch
> (less than a year old ) is shot, or that connection is, but in any case
> I can jumper it, and at least the fan works, so there's hope.
> 
> So, off to town in the trusty TDI to get some wire, and I come back, and
> the Rabbit is gone. Good, I think, I can put the bug inside for once.
> 
> So I get a brainwave to try to wire up the nice multi setting foglamp
> switch to operate the fan's two speeds, and proceed to try to figure out
> what wire goes where on the switch. (BTW, do you think the light switch
> will burn out from this?) 
> 
> Try as I might, now I can't make the fan run. Do I  run to the list? No,
> I persist with the Bentley and multimeter in hand...
> 
> So the voltage to the fan is at 0.6 V or less, WTF???? I had the fans
> running nicely earlier, so next up is to try a bunch of dfferent ground
> locations, still not even 1 V. Then  try the battery, guess what , it's
> at 0.62V also.
> 
> Why? Did I leave the radio on? 
> 
> No, while I was in town, my kid drove off with MY battery in the Rabbit,
> and gave me his identical dead one. Won't be the only dead thing when he
> gets that Bunny back here!
> 
> So never overlook the less than obvious. You guys are good, but you
> might not have figured that one out! Dang kids these days.
> 
> Cathy, mother of one girl, hoping we upped my late son's life
> insurance...
> 
> 
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