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On 7 Oct 2003 at 23:23, Mike Wodkowski wrote: > I checked and the D+ > wire was indeed shorted, somewhere at the VR. I had this newfangled Bosch VR > which is a different config than the older ones. Same part number but it's a > bit wider than the older one I had, and everything hooks in at the top. It > may have been touching the side of the car, I dont know. Or maybe it was the > gray wire that also hooked to the D+ side. The gray wire goes to the central > test gizmo. The red DF wire actually looked really good, and tested ok when > disconnected from the VR (although the resistance was more like 50 on my > VOM) I checked the resistance on the gray wire that to ground and got 0. So > I disconnected that. Reinstalled everything with the older VR. I've seen the pictures of the new VR, but I haven't handled one yet. I've seen the connections at the top, though, and I wonder if they could simply have been bent enough to allow the wire to short to the body of the VR. Another possibility is that the push-on connector has 2 sides: a "flat" side and a side with 2 rolled over "loops." The flat side might give you more clearance if you turned that side down . It may also be that just the grey wire was shorted and that this was your only problem. Leaving it off is a simple fix and you don't need to do anything else with that wire, except perhaps try to find where/how it got shorted. I got 35 Ohms when I measured an old style VR here. The new style may well be different. Have a good trip to Ohio. Too bad you weren't driving out HERE. Our weather here is still good, Indian Summer. It's supposed to be nearly 80 today. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org