Date:         Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:16:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: High beam dash bulb
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2015042819142381@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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The funny thing is that my 82 diesel westy had a green led for high beam indicator. I just checked Bentley and it confirms.

My 86 syncro has the blue filtered incandescent. 

Alistair




> On Apr 28, 2015, at 4:14 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> 
> At 05:51 PM 4/28/2015, Richard Smith wrote:
>> The trick - now that I¹ve had a few replies to my first message - seems to
>> be getting in to the instrument cluster without damaging other things!
>> 
>> Thanks for the very useful tips on how to NOT damage the foil and the
>> tabs, but as we all know, any time you disturb those 30 year old parts,
>> there is a risk of "doing more harm than goodŠ²
> 
> It's not that bad (usually).  The brown plastic has held up even worse than the black, not sure what the state is thee.  The black has tended to break out around stress concentrations like screws.
> 
> The flexible circuit is actually amazingly robust unless it's started to delaminate.  It's make of a thick and a thin layer of polyester glued together with the conductor foils in between.  If it's peeling apart you have an emergency; otherwise it's still good strong Mylar.  The connectors and such are crimped onto/through the whole sandwich and you naturally want to stress them as little as you can so they stay nice and tight.  Be respectful.  If you're truly a butterfingers this isn't for you, but you don't have to have any special dexterity, just thoughtful awareness.
> 
> Yrs,
> d