RE: [T3] Getting started.

[Scott Walters <SWalters@BigImageGraphics.com>]

Would that help me out with my 64?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fisher [mailto:fisherfarms@uwol.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:56 AM
To: type3@vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Getting started.


I also bought a used 68-73 Bentley from Jim Adney as these guys all love 
Bentley!

Mike Fisher wrote:
> books4cars.com has a good selection of vw manuals.  I love my 65-70 T3 
> Autopress by Kenneth Ball!  That is as close as you're gonna get for 
> your 64? 
>

> Scott Walters wrote:
>> That make perfect sense!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:03 AM
>> To: type3@vwtype3.org
>> Subject: RE: [T3] Getting started.
>>
>>
>> On 10 May 2007 at 8:41, Scott Walters wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I tried everything last night. I checked all the grounds and the 
>>> fuses. I
>>> have no idea what's going on! Is there a book on square backs that I 
>>> can
>>> pick up for wiring and stuff like that? If so does anyone have a 
>>> lead on
>>> where I can pick one up?
>>>     
>>
>> Do you have a voltmeter, or a test light? Either one will give you the
>> ability to check different places for the presence or absence of 
>> voltage. There is little that's special about the auto electrics of 
>> an early type 3, the stumbling block for most people is just a lack 
>> of understanding of
>> fundamental electricity, but you can familiarize yourself with this 
>> rather quickly if
>> you give yourself a way to measure voltage.
>>
>> Think of voltage as equivalent to pressure (in a water pipe.) To get the
>> water to flow from one place to another there has to be some 
>> difference in
>> pressure. if there's no pressure difference there's no flow. When the 
>> water moves from
>> a region of high pressure to low pressure it can do work, just as 
>> electricity
>> can do work when it moves from a region of higher voltage to ground (low
>> voltage.)
>>
>> Also keep in mind that voltage is always a measurement taken between 2
>> points, usually between ground and the point of interest. Thus the 
>> voltmeter you buy
>>
>> will have 2 probes which you will use to measure the voltage difference
>> between two points.
>>
>> Even a standard water pressure gauge is actually measuring a 
>> difference in pressure. It's just that the measurement is with 
>> respect to the pressure of
>> the air surrounding it, so the electricity/water analogy is actually 
>> better than
>>
>> most people suspect.
>>
>>   
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