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On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 15:35, Jim Adney wrote: > > It sounds to me like you have made a small error in your reading of the manual. > The power thru the ignition switch should NOT go thru a fuse. I don't know why > VW did it this way, but if you study the wiring diagram a bit more carefully I > think you will see that the wires that run from the fuses to the ignition > switch come from the unfused side of the fuses. In other words, VW was just > using those terminals as a connection point for the wiring. > > > I think you just need to move your ignition switch wire to the other end of the > fuse. I could be wrong, but I suspect that this will end your problems. You may > also need to reexamine how some of your other things are wired, too, in case > you got several of them backwards. You wouldn't want to have other items wired > off the wrong end of the fuse, leaving those circuits unprotected. > > BTW, question for Russ to chime in on: I can never remember which end of the > fuse is the hot end, upper or lower? > The "hot" side is the terminals closest to the dash itself. The upper. I always try for the fewest number of connections possible between the battery and the ignition switch. This was especially critical on 6V systems. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org