Remove dash

2010-05-08T16:32:21Z

Msouth: /* Pull the instrument cluster */

==How to remove the dash==
===Pull the instrument cluster===
Sit in the driver's seat and reach your hands to the back of the little hood thinking. There are finger holes back there. Put your fingers in the holes and pull up and forward. It is likely to come off really easily. If it hangs up some people recommend [http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4568788 whacking it lightly on the bottom front corner or side] with the palm of your hand. It would be good to have a picture of what it looks like when it's out so you know what is hanging up and how to flex it to help.

===Next step===
I'm writing this as I go :).

Remove dash

2010-05-08T16:31:12Z

Msouth: Created page with '==How to remove the dash== ===Pull the instrument cluster=== Sit in the driver's seat and reach your hands to the back of the little hood thinking. There are finger holes back t…'

==How to remove the dash==
===Pull the instrument cluster===
Sit in the driver's seat and reach your hands to the back of the little hood thinking. There are finger holes back there. Put your fingers in the holes and pull up and forward. It is likely to come off really easily. If it doesn't some people recommend [http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4568788 whacking it on the bottom front corner or side]
===Next step===
I'm writing this as I go :).

New owner checklist

2010-05-08T16:24:31Z

Msouth: /* Component Replacement */ emphasized replacing fuel lines

Every new Vanagon owner should do a series of things upon acquiring a new Vanagon, no matter what the year or style. This list is a recommended set of items.

== Documentation ==
* Review previous owner's maintenance records
** Consider tracking maintenance history in a spreadsheet
* Acquire a [http://www.bentleypublishers.com/ Bentley] repair manual appropriate for your year of Vanagon

== Component Replacement ==
* '''Replace all [http://benplace.com/fuel_line.htm fuel lines] in the car!'''
* Consider replacing [[Vacuum system|vacuum lines]]

== Component Inspections ==
* Inspect all [[Cooling system|coolant hoses]] and look for leaks around heater cores
* Check [[Electrical system|battery]] for proper voltage
* Inspect all body seams, undercarriage and floor areas for rust

== Fluid Flushes ==
* Flush [[Cooling system|coolant]] with a phosphate-free/distilled water mixture (50/50)
* Flush brake fluid
* Flush power steering fluid
* Change the [[Recommended oil types|oil]]
* Change the transmission fluid
* Refill the wiper resevoirs front and rear

Zetec Conversion

2010-05-08T05:54:34Z

Msouth: corrected category designation

A conversion that uses a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zetec_engine Ford Zetec] engine mated to the Vanagon transmission via a [http://www.bostig.com/products conversion kit] from [http://bostig.com Bostig Engineering].

[[Category:conversions]]

Zetec Conversion

2010-05-08T05:53:53Z

Msouth: just a stub really, but does explain what "zetec" means at least.

Conversions

2010-05-08T05:49:09Z

Msouth: link to Bostig, link to still-to-be-created Zetec page

This is just a placeholder now, but eventually it will be a front page for information about all the kinds of powertrain conversions that people do to their Vanagons.

Some examples:

* EJ22/EJ25/EG33/EZ30 (Subaru)
* [[Zetec Conversion | Zetec]], aka Bostig, (after [http://www.bostig.com/products/bostig-20 Bostig Engineering] who produces the kits)
* Jetta
* Diesel/Biodiesel
* v6 (Chevrolet/Buick/VW)
* v8 (Chevrolet/VW)
* Porsche
* Corvair
[[Category:conversions]]

Main Page

2010-05-08T04:44:15Z

Msouth: /* What's here? */ Pointing out recent changes link

<big>'''The Vanagon Wiki is being rebuilt'''</big>
== History ==
The Vanagon Wiki was created on August 7, 2007. It is intended to be a central repository for all information Vanagon-related (however loosely). Like the Vanagon.com list archives, the wiki will preserve and convey the distilled wisdom of those who love, maintain, repair, and modify these unique vehicles. But unlike the archives, these pages will not only be quicker to access, they are "live," meaning that any registered user can edit a topic for accuracy or clarity or add new information as it comes along; and any registered user can create new topic pages. If you consider yourself to be an expert in a particular area then [[Special:UserLogin|register]] and create a new page so others can benefit from your experience.

The Vanagon Wiki data was lost due to a series of unfortunate events (how Vanagon-like), and, as of May 2010, is being actively rebuilt by a special segment of the [http://www.vanagonauts.com/index.phtml?catid=74 Vanagon Rescue Squad].

== What's here? ==

Not much, yet. Any pages that have been assigned a category can be accessed through their category page. A list of all the categories is at [[Special:Categories]]. Since all the work we've done on this is still very recent, you can also discover what's been going on by looking at the [[Special:RecentChanges|"Recent Changes"]] link on the left-side navigation.

See below if you want to learn how to help.

== Getting started ==
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

Main Page

2010-05-08T04:41:36Z

Msouth: Link to the category pages

<big>'''The Vanagon Wiki is being rebuilt'''</big>
== History ==
The Vanagon Wiki was created on August 7, 2007. It is intended to be a central repository for all information Vanagon-related (however loosely). Like the Vanagon.com list archives, the wiki will preserve and convey the distilled wisdom of those who love, maintain, repair, and modify these unique vehicles. But unlike the archives, these pages will not only be quicker to access, they are "live," meaning that any registered user can edit a topic for accuracy or clarity or add new information as it comes along; and any registered user can create new topic pages. If you consider yourself to be an expert in a particular area then [[Special:UserLogin|register]] and create a new page so others can benefit from your experience.

The Vanagon Wiki data was lost due to a series of unfortunate events (how Vanagon-like), and, as of May 2010, is being actively rebuilt by a special segment of the [http://www.vanagonauts.com/index.phtml?catid=74 Vanagon Rescue Squad].

== What's here? ==

Not much, yet. Any pages that have been assigned a category can be accessed through their category page. A list of all the categories is at [[Special:Categories]].

See below if you want to learn how to help.

== Getting started ==
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

Bentley manual

2010-05-08T04:40:39Z

Msouth: stub page

(This is a stub page. Someone should put a good description of the Bentley here).

[[Category:manuals]]

Category:Understanding bentley

2010-05-08T04:39:01Z

Msouth: Created page with 'The Bentley manual is a crucial tool in working on your Vanagon, but it takes a bit of getting used to to learn how to get the most out of it. This category is for tips and …'

The [[Bentley manual]] is a crucial tool in working on your Vanagon, but it takes a bit of getting used to to learn how to get the most out of it. This category is for tips and tricks on getting the most out of your Bentley.

Solving wiring diagrams -- a technique

2010-05-07T17:23:14Z

Msouth:

In understanding Vanagon (or any other) wiring diagrams there is a
not-so-little trick that will make it vastly easier to figure out
what's really going on in a circuit. Before you can do this of
course you have to be familiar with Bentley 97.3-97.6. so the
diagrams make any sense at all.

The trick is this: First copy the page in question (an enlarged copy can be helpful
because the wires are quite close together in the original pictures) so you won't
wreck the original if you mess up somewhere. Get yourself an
assortment of colored pencils/markers, at least five or six including brown
and red. Then take a look at
http://picasaweb.google.com/dbeierl/FiguringOutVanagonWiringDiagrams#
for a working example of how it's done. You may want to keep it open
to refer to or make a color print of it to use the first time or two
you do this.

Start by locating the grounds. Since this is a physical schematic
some of them may originate far away from where you're looking even if
it would be easier to understand if they simply drew all of them
straight down to line at the bottom line of the page, which is
chassis ground. Every terminal labeled as 31 is a ground. Every
ground you find, draw a brown line next to the wiring for its whole
length. For switched grounds I recommend a dashed line instead of
solid upstream of the switch.

Then look for the +12 supply wires and color them red. You may well
want to use different colors for unswitched (terminal 30), switched
by ignition (terminal 15), and switched by the load reduction relay
(X-terminal on ignition switch operates it; power upstream is 30 at
the relay, downstream (switched) is 87 like all relay
outputs. Again, power that's switched downstream should use a dashed
line downstream of the switch.

Now pick a wire and figure out what it does. Follow it off the page
if necessary and label where it goes on your drawing. If you can't
figure it out, pick another wire. As soon as you know what it does,
label it as such then pick a color for it and draw solid or dashed
line as appropriate. If a single wire does multiple things, as in
the circuit from 53e at the motor up to the switch, down to the relay
and thence to the motor 53 terminal, use multiple solid or dashed
lines as appropriate (Note: the pink wire should be dotted for its
entire length and there should also be a brown dotted line for the
whole length of that circuit. Can you discover why? Answers on
request. Hint: I missed one of the functions of the auto-park switch).

Keep on doing this for wire after wire until you understand them all
(or are certain you understand enough of them, which may or may not
be true). Each wire you figure out makes the rest easier, and the
colored lines take away the visual anonymity of Joe Random
Black-line-on-the-page. Now you can follow the circuit around and
find out where a particular problem might (or must) lie as well as
where it cannot.

This is the second time I figured out this particular wiper
circuit. The first time I forgot this trick I learned thirty years
ago, and it took me over an hour. This time I remembered, and it
took about ten minutes after I found the colored pencils and
photographed the page. And I was easily (but not in ten minutes)
able to establish that the relay cannot possibly be correct as drawn
(since at some point it would hook +12 directly to ground) and how it
would actually have to be (which happens to coincide with the diagram
molded into the side of the actual 19 relay, but I didn't know that
at the time. I definitely did *not* figure that part out the other time.

Adds Roger: "Once you learn these diagrams, you can troubleshoot any circuit easily, or do a conversion. Many of the color codes for Vanagon are the same for Jetta , Golf etc."

Originally posted on the vanagon mailing list by David Beierl with additions from response by Robert Keezer

[[Category:diagnostic_tips]][[category:understanding_bentley]]

Solving wiring diagrams -- a technique

2010-05-07T17:22:40Z

Msouth: restored, having received permission from David through email

David Bierl:

In understanding Vanagon (or any other) wiring diagrams there is a
not-so-little trick that will make it vastly easier to figure out
what's really going on in a circuit. Before you can do this of
course you have to be familiar with Bentley 97.3-97.6. so the
diagrams make any sense at all.

The trick is this: First copy the page in question (an enlarged copy can be helpful
because the wires are quite close together in the original pictures) so you won't
wreck the original if you mess up somewhere. Get yourself an
assortment of colored pencils/markers, at least five or six including brown
and red. Then take a look at
http://picasaweb.google.com/dbeierl/FiguringOutVanagonWiringDiagrams#
for a working example of how it's done. You may want to keep it open
to refer to or make a color print of it to use the first time or two
you do this.

Start by locating the grounds. Since this is a physical schematic
some of them may originate far away from where you're looking even if
it would be easier to understand if they simply drew all of them
straight down to line at the bottom line of the page, which is
chassis ground. Every terminal labeled as 31 is a ground. Every
ground you find, draw a brown line next to the wiring for its whole
length. For switched grounds I recommend a dashed line instead of
solid upstream of the switch.

Then look for the +12 supply wires and color them red. You may well
want to use different colors for unswitched (terminal 30), switched
by ignition (terminal 15), and switched by the load reduction relay
(X-terminal on ignition switch operates it; power upstream is 30 at
the relay, downstream (switched) is 87 like all relay
outputs. Again, power that's switched downstream should use a dashed
line downstream of the switch.

Now pick a wire and figure out what it does. Follow it off the page
if necessary and label where it goes on your drawing. If you can't
figure it out, pick another wire. As soon as you know what it does,
label it as such then pick a color for it and draw solid or dashed
line as appropriate. If a single wire does multiple things, as in
the circuit from 53e at the motor up to the switch, down to the relay
and thence to the motor 53 terminal, use multiple solid or dashed
lines as appropriate (Note: the pink wire should be dotted for its
entire length and there should also be a brown dotted line for the
whole length of that circuit. Can you discover why? Answers on
request. Hint: I missed one of the functions of the auto-park switch).

Keep on doing this for wire after wire until you understand them all
(or are certain you understand enough of them, which may or may not
be true). Each wire you figure out makes the rest easier, and the
colored lines take away the visual anonymity of Joe Random
Black-line-on-the-page. Now you can follow the circuit around and
find out where a particular problem might (or must) lie as well as
where it cannot.

This is the second time I figured out this particular wiper
circuit. The first time I forgot this trick I learned thirty years
ago, and it took me over an hour. This time I remembered, and it
took about ten minutes after I found the colored pencils and
photographed the page. And I was easily (but not in ten minutes)
able to establish that the relay cannot possibly be correct as drawn
(since at some point it would hook +12 directly to ground) and how it
would actually have to be (which happens to coincide with the diagram
molded into the side of the actual 19 relay, but I didn't know that
at the time. I definitely did *not* figure that part out the other time.

Adds Roger: "Once you learn these diagrams, you can troubleshoot any circuit easily, or do a conversion. Many of the color codes for Vanagon are the same for Jetta , Golf etc."

Originally posted on the vanagon mailing list by David Beierl with additions from response by Robert Keezer

[[Category:diagnostic_tips]][[category:understanding_bentley]]

Category:Diagnostic tips

2010-05-07T17:15:45Z

Msouth: Created page with 'Articles about helping people figure out what's going on.'

Articles about helping people figure out what's going on.

Solving wiring diagrams -- a technique

2010-05-07T17:14:45Z

Msouth: Undo revision 122 by Msouth (Talk)

David Bierl:

In understanding Vanagon (or any other) wiring diagrams there is a
not-so-little trick that will make it vastly easier to figure out
what's really going on in a circuit. Before you can do this of
course you have to be familiar with Bentley 97.3-97.6. so the
diagrams make any sense at all.

The trick is this: First copy the page in question so you won't
wreck the original if you mess up somewhere. Get yourself an
assortment of colored pencils, at least five or six including brown
and red. Then take a look at
http://picasaweb.google.com/dbeierl/FiguringOutVanagonWiringDiagrams#
for a working example of how it's done. You may want to keep it open
to refer to or make a color print of it to use the first time or two
you do this.

Start by locating the grounds. Since this is a physical schematic
some of them may originate far away from where you're looking even if
it would be easier to understand if they simply drew all of them
straight down to line at the bottom line of the page, which is
chassis ground. Every terminal labeled as 31 is a ground. Every
ground you find, draw a brown line next to the wiring for its whole
length. For switched grounds I recommend a dashed line instead of
solid upstream of the switch.

Then look for the +12 supply wires and color them red. You may well
want to use different colors for unswitched (terminal 30), switched
by ignition (terminal 15), and switched by the load reduction relay
(X-terminal on ignition switch operates it; power upstream is 30 at
the relay, downstream (switched) is 87 like all relay
outputs. Again, power that's switched downstream should use a dashed
line downstream of the switch.

Now pick a wire and figure out what it does. Follow it off the page
if necessary and label where it goes on your drawing. If you can't
figure it out, pick another wire. As soon as you know what it does,
label it as such then pick a color for it and draw solid or dashed
line as appropriate. If a single wire does multiple things, as in
the circuit from 53e at the motor up to the switch, down to the relay
and thence to the motor 53 terminal, use multiple solid or dashed
lines as appropriate (Note: the pink wire should be dotted for its
entire length and there should also be a brown dotted line for the
whole length of that circuit. Can you discover why? Answers on
request. Hint: I missed one of the functions of the auto-park switch).

Keep on doing this for wire after wire until you understand them all
(or are certain you understand enough of them, which may or may not
be true). Each wire you figure out makes the rest easier, and the
colored lines take away the visual anonymity of Joe Random
Black-line-on-the-page. Now you can follow the circuit around and
find out where a particular problem might (or must) lie as well as
where it cannot.

This is the second time I figured out this particular wiper
circuit. The first time I forgot this trick I learned thirty years
ago, and it took me over an hour. This time I remembered, and it
took about ten minutes after I found the colored pencils and
photographed the page. And I was easily (but not in ten minutes)
able to establish that the relay cannot possibly be correct as drawn
(since at some point it would hook +12 directly to ground) and how it
would actually have to be (which happens to coincide with the diagram
molded into the side of the actual 19 relay, but I didn't know that
at the time. I definitely did *not* figure that part out the other time.

Yours,
David

Robert Keezer adds:

This is an idea I had 15 years ago when I was installing Digifant 2 and later Motronic fuel injection wiring in my 82 Westfalia ,with one additional trick-
make the copies larger than the Bentley, making them easier to read.

The circuit tracks are very close on top of the page, and I mixed up the 1 wire with the 15 wire and fried the computer before I ever got it started.

Colored marking pens also work well. Once you learn these diagrams, you can troubleshoot any circuit easily, or do a conversion. Many of the color codes for Vanagon are the same for Jetta , Golf etc.

[[Category:diagnostic_tips]][[category:understanding_bentley]]