[T3] A couple of followups

["Daniel Baum" <daniel@type34.info>]

Hi all,

A couple of follow-ups to old threads:

If you remember, I found red oil in my diff., and assumed there was a 
leak there. I filled it up with GL-5 a couple of weeks ago. 

Today I opened up the fill plug again. I couldn't see any sign of the 
oil being pink. What did happen was that the oil started to drip out 
of the fill plug when I opened it up. I squirted some more in and 
closed it up again but there was a puddle of oil on the floor when I 
finished. I hope that's OK 'cause I have no intention of opening it up 
again, unless there is some really good reason. I think if there is a 
leak it must be pretty slow. Something to watch in the long term.

Also, I finally found what the reason for the short in my ignition 
switch is. I was actually in the middle of changing the switch, when I 
realised that there is something metallic on the inside of the 
steering column that juts down and touches the 50 connector of my non-
original ignition switch. I taped the connector and that has fixed the 
problem as far as I can see. I'll get some fatter shrink tubing and do 
it properly. In the long term I want to replace my non-authentic parts 
with the proper ones and rewire parts of the car to conform to the 
Type 34 wiring diagram (most of it already does). Does anyone have 
a '69 fuse box in _really_ good condition? I think I have the rest of 
the proper parts, but I'll have to check the diagram proerply again.

Daniel

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