[T3] Wiring?!

[Mike Fisher]

We towed home a '72 FI/AT square Sunday that was wrecked in 1978.
I've been crawling underneath it trying to get it running, but It's
FULL of dirt/leaves/hornet nests etc! ;-(

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:08 AM, John L. Morgan IV
<emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks so much.  IT is always something with the 70fb which makes it verrrry
> exciting.
> The knocking still needs to be addressed, but I havent attacked it since my
> initial questions.
> I re-mounted the wheels and tires and still feel some play in the front,
> which I assume
> is the knocking I hear at hard stops, but since the car is a daily back and
> forther (I am a teacher
> and my commute is relatively short), I have tried to deal with it (not the
> bet thing I know), but
> my wife kills me when I throw $$ at the VW.
>
> Thanks for the wiper advice.  I will look at the fuse # spots you mentioned
> and see
> if anything looks loose.  IT seems very hard to see anything close to that
> wiper switch.
> Im always getting things in my eyes, lying on my back with a flashlight,
> trying to figure it out.
>
> Oh the joy!
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> I've been reorganizing, cleaning up, and rearranging the room my
>> computer is in, and for a few days I couldn't find my microfilm pages
>> or my Bentley manual. I just found both of them, so maybe now I can
>> give specific help with your questions.
>>
>> On 10 Oct 2011 at 7:30, John L. Morgan IV wrote:
>>
>> > This is my first time looking at a wiring diagram.
>> > What does a "coil feed" mean?
>>
>> "Coil feed" would usually mean a wire that feeds 12 V to the coil
>> when the key is in the ON or START position.
>>
>> > So, if the wire in my photos was plugged into the bottom
>> > of FUSE 5 before I pulled the radio where would that red (power) wire go
>> to
>> > on the motor itself?
>>
>> On a '70, it looks like the wiper power would come from fuse 8
>> (counting L to R) but I'm guessing you counted R to L and came up
>> with "5." The power to the wiper motor should be a black wire that
>> goes from the top of fuse 7 to terminal 30 on the wiper switch. From
>> the wiper switch, there should be a bundle of 4 wires that run in a
>> common black jacket to the wiper motor. I doubt if you disconnected
>> any of those, unless that cable got pulled on and accidentally
>> disconnected at the switch end. They are soldered at the motor end.
>>
>> There is also a ground connection at the motor end, but I don't
>> remember what that looks like. The diagram shows it as a brown wire,
>> which is probably short. I don't think it runs all the way back to
>> the gauge cluster area.
>>
>> > Or is it that the motor doesnt have a wire to it from the fuse panel,
>> > and this is just some random, old radio wire.
>>
>> That's probably true.
>>
>> The first thing to check would be whether you actually have voltage
>> at both ends of fuse 7 when the key is on.
>>
>> Finally, I can see a black plastic relay mounted under the dash near
>> the fuse box. That's not OE, so it's possible that someone has added
>> that in the wiper circuit. If that's the case, then there's no way to
>> know what's going on now without being there.
>>
>> Let us know what you find.
>>
>> Did you find the cause of your "knocking sound" when stopping?
>>
>> --
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>> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
>> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
>> *******************************
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