Re: [T3] Electrical Strangeness

["Garret Trask" <garret_trask@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>It's a '68.  The problem has gone away (just as mysteriously as it 
appeared).

Turning the car off and on stopped correcting the problem.  I noticed that 
another symptom of the problem was that the brake lights and ts lights on 
the outside of the car weren't working.  So I took the brake light wire off 
the fuse box and tested continuity between the part that attaches to the 
tail light and the part that attaches to the fuse box (with the brake pedal 
pressed), and found that the wire was fine.  I plugged it back into the fuse 
box, then tested to confirm that it was hot at the part that attaches to the 
tail light when the pedal was pressed, and it was.  So then I put everything 
back together, and both brake lights and turn signal lights are functioning 
normally.

I'm expecting this problem will re-appear at some point....it's a strange 
one.  If it does, I'll just keep tinkering until I find the answer.

Gary

From: Russ wolfe <russella@prairieinet.net>
Reply-To: type3@vwtype3.org
To: "type3@vwtype3.org" <type3@vwtype3.org>
Subject: Re: [T3] Electrical Strangeness
Date: 19 Nov 2003 21:44:17 -0600

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 20:27, Garret Trask wrote:
> As I'm driving home tonight, my turn signals stopped flashing.  Instead,
> whenever I try to use them, the indicators just stay on steady, with no
> flashing.  Also, whenever I put on the brakes, same thing, the turn 
signal
> indicators would come on and stay lit until I let off the brakes.
>
> If I turn the car off, then back on, the turn signals start working 
normally
> again for a little while, but then the same thing starts happening.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before or have any ideas on what I could check 
to
> see what's happening?
>
You don't say what year it is. On my '71, I have had problems with the
4way switch getting dirty, and causing the T/S to quit working. I
operate the 4way switch several times, (to clean the contacts in it) and
they will work again for a few months.

--
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT
'71 FB AT
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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