July 04, 2003
wiring madness, again ?
i've spent too much of the day tracing this....
the haynes/vw wiring diagram for the 412. slowly it's staring to make sense.
i got the windscreen washer pump working, the interior lighty, the windscreen wipers (with NEW wiper blades) german and swedish don't have a single part for a 411 or 412 listed so guessing the parts interchange is fun, it seems a combination of bontempi home organ, mamod steam engine, late beetle and early golf. i'll get there... maybe...
so there it is. the passenger floor of fugly. note the lack of a central tunnel! cute. and the bling auto shift. the pool ball gear knob is temporary, i promise.
after much tracing etc, i realised that the reason that the main beam doesn't work in the headlights is beacuse the relay is missing. it's a wierd one that blugs into the top of the fuse bocks. i've never seen the fuseboix in a late beetle of a type 3 so this is all new to me. i'll see if i can get one tomorrow then, all eing well, the 412 is readuy for MOT. i got a new fornt number plate too....
i never realised how much hassle it is to get a number plate printed now, the autoshop asked for the registration documents, my drivers license, more id. everything.
as is ususally the case i hadn't bothered to change the registratio yet and they got all sniffy about it... yeh. like i',m a major car thief. stealing rusting old ugly orange volkswagens so i can spend more money doing them up.....
ah well.... with the new front plate on and the worst of the orange ovrepsrayt scraped oiff the windows it doesn't lool too bad.
- btw i guess that i ought to proof read this stuff sometime and correct the spelling and puctuation. just someothertime, ok ? -
i had a crawl around to che the underneath. some bright spark has lowered the front end an inch or two. the back end is spring wishbone like a wedge van and the font end is mcpherson strut like a late beetle.
the ingenious way it's been lowered is by having ten mates sit on the bonnet and then strap jubliee clips round the top of the spring.
I kid you not.
Posted by akciddento at July 4, 2003 01:54 AM