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Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:36 pm

yesterday i had driven my car to skewl all fine. after to skewl i go to start it up no click at all theres no power to the starter at all i checked it its kewl, checked alternater it was 12.8, the battery also did have it,i looked at the battery place and looked at the wires, i seen the like circuit breaker thing connecting positive cable, i took the plastic screw on it and then pu them back on and it started, ive had to mess wit stuff in there like 4 times. what do you know about it and what should i do? thanx

Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:00 pm

I'm not sure I understand you. What circuit breaker thing? Sounds like bad positive battery connections, or battery ground.

What bore and stroke is your engine, by the way?

Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:33 pm

theres a little block thats is on my powerr wire that seperates it in it? i think its a circuit breaker or sumthin. but all i did was moved it and it werked. its weird. does any volkswagen have sumthin like that?

Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:36 pm

i need to get all my bugs out the bug electrical and all so i can take it road trips and all? any power wire u guys can help with would be cool.

Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:06 pm

Maybe if you took a picture it would help. The majority of electrical gremlins can be fixed by tightening/cleaning ALL connections, especially grounds. I bet your starting anomaly goes away if you tighten all connections to battery and starter.

Hey, you never said what size motor you have. How many cc's? Bore and stroke? Is it fast?

Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:25 pm

Hey sk8r dude.

Does it shut down while you're rollin' down the road, or only having the prob on start-up? That circuit breaker thing sounds aftermarket to me. Never seen one, and not one on my '71, but that's neither here nor there. If it's not connected to anything other than you pos lead, then I'd shell it and get a new pos lead. But that's just me, someone else may have a better idea.

If it's only on start-up, you have a contact ( or weak cicuit in that thing ) that can't handle the initial load without a little persuasion. So..... like UncleBob said, clean all your contacts and make sure they're snug. You seem to be charging just fine, so it'g got to be a prob with those battery connections. Simple is better, if you don't need it, shell it! IMO

Buy the way, UncleBob still wants to know what size stroker yur runnin'

Good Luck

Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:53 am

mulkfam3 wrote: Hey sk8r dude.

Buy the way, UncleBob still wants to know what size stroker yur runnin'

Good Luck

Thanks, Mulkfam. How 'bout it sk8rdude? "As high as U can go stroke and bore". How big is that? What cam? You running a Holley/Weber progressive on it? Will it do wheelies?