Date:         Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:56:15 -0700
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Headlights and Grounds
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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On 2/15/05 4:31 PM, "Dennis Haynes" <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote:

> The wiring and ground connections for the headlights is barely adequate
> at best, when new. Probably a bean counter decision, not engineering.
> Run the hi-beams for a few hours straight and this connection will heat
> up. It happened to me many years ago. The headlight switch is also
> poorly designed and having the current travel through the ignition
> switch is also silly. One has to ask why they would ground the
> headlights all the way back by the fuse box? Probably less labor to
> install the harness. Beetles and old busses grounded the lights with
> sheet metal screw directly behind them. 6" wire. Go figure why they
> changed things.
> 
> Dennis
Havent looked at the ground points much on the splitties, but on the old
bugs I had headlight and blinker problems were often traced to the ground
screws having rusted out to a point where it was no longer making good
contact or falling out. I usually replaced those contact points with a small
bolt and nut and a couple washers
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