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I looked and listened to the clicking and it is in by the fuse box the fuel pump reg is working fine. When the clicking starts it clicks fast and spearatic then the red and green lights flick on and the engine dies. This happened an hour ago and after several cars beeped and passed I got it started again. It is only when I start from a stop or hit some Nj potholes. I seen another relay bolted to the firewall just forward and to the left of the fusebox, it has so arcing marks on it. What is this for? Could this cause the Ingnition to cut like this? Ollie & Amy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [T3] Little clicking in the dash > On 30 Apr 2005 at 0:14, AMY RARIG wrote: > > > The little gremlin is still clicking and I don't think it is anything > > to do with the fi. I think this is affecting the ingn. I just > > installed a stero, and when I was wiring it up I seen the headlights on > > without the switch on. So I looked around the light switch and found > > one of the big red wires was hanging off of the switch. I pulled the > > wire out but I didn't disconnect the battery first so after some arcing > > I got it out and put it back on the light switch. Now the lights work > > and still have the Bucking at the stoplights and it seems to cut the > > engine out when it happens. Does the lightswitch have anything to do > > with the ingnition? I think I may have fried something pulling out the > > wire. The fuel pump relay seems to work fine there is the click when > > you turn the key and starts right up no problem. > > Well, there are just 2 things under there that could do this clicking. I think > you said this was a '68. On a '68 there is the fuel pump relay and the turn > signal relay. The TS relay is a black plastic rectangular box which can develop > a kind of clicking whenever there is a voltage drop. If you have messed up the > wiring somehow so that the full system voltage isn't getting out of the > ignition to the coil, etc, then this could be your problem. You could try > wiggling the key just to see if this affects it. > > It would help a lot if you could figure out exactly what is clicking. > > On a '68, the headlight switch does not affect the ignition. > > -- > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >