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On 30 Apr 2003 at 15:14, pcastro wrote: > First: I'm having my car painted soon and began to pull the dash apart and > realized I probably need a whole new harness for safty's sake. My question is > do you think it would be wise to rip the whole old one out before I get the new > one! Do the new ones come with good enough instruction to allow me to risk > loosing my bearings in regards to what goes where! It's a LOT more complicated than it appears at first glance and you'll never get it back together right if you take it apart ahead of time. You will also probably rip out some perfectly good wires that will not come with your new harness. NOS exact match harnesses are not available. Unless you pay big bucks for a custom exact match you will get a rather generic harness, which will not be a clear improvement over the old one. > Second: I want to ditch my points and order a new coil and elecronic ignition. > What I'm wondering is first is it possible and second what EXACTLY should I be > ordering. Currently the car is a Fully Stock 1969 square with operational FI > and auotmatic tranny!!! The OE points and coil work really well, but an electronic setup will reduce maintenance, usually. In general, my advise would still be to leave it alone and concentrate on things that actually need to be fixed. Here are some important trouble areas: Front brake calipers (rebuild) master cylinder (rebuild) rear wheel cylinders (rebuild) debris in cooling airbox (under dash) Grease the front axle check the sway bar fixing bolt on the LHS oil the door hinges rusty pedal cluster loose engine fan housing plus the usual tune-up things: dwell, timing, advance mechanisms, valve lash, .... -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org