[Vwdiesel] 50A fuses

[Val Christian]

No heck from me.  I used 18 ga copper wire, because I had it on hand.  
This is probably a good application for a beer can (Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Persing).  (grin)



> 
> I'll probably catch heck for this but when I last lost a g.p. fuse I traced 
> it out on a piece of aluminum house siding and cut it out to get me by. It 
> seems similar in gauge and I kept the dimensions correct. It has been there 
> for a year or so.  I know I need to get some of the real ones though.
> Hey -3 here Christmas morning and my jetta parked in a unheated garage with 
> no block heater (yet) started up. Stalled once or twice but took right off 
> again.
> 
> Bart
> 
> At 02:48 PM 12/26/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >Where can I get the 50A glow plug fuses besides the stealership?
> >After horsing around with my daughters car for two days trying to figure 
> >out why it wouldn't start, I decided to take a closer look at the fuse 
> >because I have had loose screws leave me stranded before. I found that the 
> >PO had taken pieces of  two fuses and mounted them together so they were 
> >touching and this was acting as the fuse. One side had shifted so that 
> >there wasn't good electrical contact anymore and I had no glow plugs. When 
> >I looked at the fuse initially, it looked OK. I didn't think of taking the 
> >screws out to see if the contact was dirty or if it was a cobbled two 
> >piece fuse.  It burns me up when I find  a shortcut that
> >either a PO or "mechanic" has taken that  causes me to spend a lot of time 
> >determining why things don't work like they are supposed to!