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Date:         Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:24:06 -0500
Reply-To:     Joe Romas <jromas@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joe Romas <jromas@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Headlights not working (?) --> FIXED!
Comments: To: Bill Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
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Bill

VW has never been too good at wiring INMHO, and they run all grounds to a common point. So if the two headlight grounds go to a y then to the ground the first thing that happened was a poor connection got hot then the y kind of burned up. I've had several problems of that sort on my 84 already.

Joe

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Davidson" <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: Re: Headlights not working (?) --> FIXED!

> > Bingo! > > I think it's fixed... > > The two ground wires coming from the headlights had fused together > > because they had > > been squeezed together into one connector at the ground under the dash. > > The two wires had formed a one-inch melted 'Y' shape coming from the > > ground crimp connector. > > Maybe... but I don't think fusing two ground wires would cause this problem. > You could have hooked them together in first place it it would not have > caused the problem. However, I would be very interested to find out what > caused the fusing.... or if you're mistaken about them both being ground > wires. > > Bill >


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