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RE: Was ' electrical woes' now 'jumping' question


<x-charset iso-8859-1>I did this a lot with my '80 FI Vanagon.
First thing to try is to start with the good vehicle
off, so you only get the charge in the battery
couple with the dead one.  No chance for spikes,
but the risk of killing the good battery, but the
safest.

Second choice is to allow the running vehicle to idle,
and produce standard voltage. If you rev it up
the spikes might mess with the FI on the daed car.

Jeff  '67 Sqbk

-----Original Message-----
> Is it OK to use a battery charger to start your FI T3?
>Advice from the oficial manual  is not to "jump" the FI engine; I assume
they mean with   >something other than a normal output from another car's
charging system.  I can't see     >using jump leads from another car should
overwhelm a FI system.

This brings up a good point.  Can you 'jump(one vehicle to another)' the FI
cars.  I have done this on my 69 Square and 72 fastback with no adverse
effects but it was a dispirit measure, but was very concerned I would do
damage.  Can anyone clear this up.  I know in the Idiots Guide and the
Owners Manual say this is a no-no.

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