[T3] Wiring?!

[Adriel Rowley]

Why don't you all get some kind of eye protection?  Do make them to go over glasses, but will admit I do not wear them because I felt my prescription glasses with safety lenses be fine.  Guess I need to rethink my thinking... ;/


Thank you,
Adriel 

> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:23:43 -0700
> From: fisherfarms at gmail.com
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Wiring?!
> 
> 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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