Re: Electrical Crap...

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Sounds to me like your load reduction relay has water in it or it just plain 
stuck on. Don't know what year your car is but I would suspect it's a MK1 
with a bad windsheild seal. If it is a MK1 then that realy would be located 
all the way to left and bottom of the fusebox. Try pulling this out and see 
if thee other stuff turns off.
No there isn't a valve in the engine to do what you are describing. What 
usually happens when you overfill your oil the oil will come out of the hose 
on the valve cover and soak your air filter. That can usually be a really 
big mess. HTH


>From: Ben Patterson <bpatterson@stanford.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Electrical Crap...
>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:59:24 -0700
>
>Hey all -
>
>	Well, my 86' 16v beastie is in my garage with the front
>driveaxle removed, a dead battery, and oil leak and a new coolant
>tank. My car totally died while sitting in my driveway on Friday
>because the rear defroster stayed on even after the key was out.
>After jumping the car and driving for a bit, I realized that not only
>the defroster, but the wipers and blower stay on after the key is out
>as well. What the hammer?!?!? Anyways, I have another battery to drop
>in there since the other one has been drained totally dead twice, but
>I'd like to sort out the electrical probs before I do this. Anyone
>have this problem before?
>	While working on the oil leak, I noticed that the outer right
>and inner left CV boots were leaking so I'm in the middle of changing
>those out. It would have been done on Saturday if the stupid shop I
>bought em from gave me the right freaking parts. Piss me off...
>	I put in a new coolant tank after I discovered that the old
>one had a crack in it. Seems to be ok, but I won't really know until
>I get it out on the road.
>	Is there an oil overflow valve on these cars? I know I
>accidentally put in too much oil and I'm wondering if that caused the
>leaking somewhere. After I changed the oil, I cleaned the whole
>underside of the car and started it up to see if I could find a leak
>somewhere. It looks totally clean - don't see anything anywhere. I
>checked the head gasket and hoses... got me. Anybody got a clue?
>
>				Ben Patterson
>
>Oh yeah - if you could email me personally along with sending a
>message to the list, that would be great as I'm on the digest version
>of this madness.Heh heh...
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