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On 5 Mar 2001, at 15:43, Tom Hansen wrote: > I believe these grounds were standard issue on these early cars , Jim. The > turn signal holders have the terminal to attach the ground wire to, plus it > is shown as a ground on all the diagrams that I have seen. I realize that the Bentley manual shows a single wiring diagram for 68 and 69, but the grounds (or at least most of them) shown in that diagram, were not present in my 68. I also recall VW making a rather big deal about all the new ground wiring when the 69s were introduced. Among other things, this meant that the 68 turn signal relay has 3 terminals, while the 69 is functionally identical, with the addition of a 4th ground terminal. While the turn signal bases for these 2 years looked the same externally, they are different inside and the 68s did not have the spade connector for the ground connection. I can't remember for sure where the '68 headlight ground was. It's possible that it was run back to the inside of the trunk like was described earlier, but I THINK it was just anchored to a sheet metal screw inside the headlight bucket. I'm not familiar with the earlier systems, so I suppose it's possible that these grounds were there earlier and then dropped, then re- established, but I doubt it. Can someone else tell us? - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitch in! Send your pledge of support! mailto:support@vwtype3.org