[T3] Wire Question

[Dave Hall]

Be careful with black wires in your VW, it's used for +12V on VWs.  I've
never understood why.

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Daniel K.
Du Vall
Sent: 31 January 2013 23:35
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Wire Question

Well after working most the day at cleaning up wires I was able to pull out
most the ones related to the old FI. Well basically what was not connected
and had been snipped off any how. 
One thing I am trying to figure out now id the D- wire it was black and
actually not going anywhere in the harness it was cut off at the other end
What I find interesting is the Bentley shows it as brown and connected to
the regulator D-  I had a brown wire that went to one of the screws that
holds the regulator to the body that was brown but it also was cut off at
the other end. 

Nice thing about this 72 id that the harness runs in a way I was able to
pull the wires and should be able to fish new ones and replace those that
were hacked.

So to those in the know does any of this sound right?

I still hate it when people just chop off stuff!!! :-|

Daniel Du Vall
http://1peter4-10.org
http://volkswageninsanity.us


-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:58 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Wire Question

On 31 Jan 2013 at 9:18, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:

> If you look in the Bentley wiring diagrams, you'll see orange circles 
> (in the color version). Those are part of the diagnostic system VW 
> used in the early 70's. These are now redundant, as that set up has 
> long been replaced with other forms of testing equipment. What most 
> PO's do, is remove that plug,  and it's wiring to clean up the engine 
> bay. You might say it's hacked, but had  the PO removed those last 
> couple of wires, you would have never known it had  existed. :O And 
> it's only now, (a few years later) that you're in there  digging that you
found the remains of it.

There are some wires in that diagnostic bundle that need to connect together
to work properly, and there are lots of others that can/will cause trouble
if they short together, so any removal needs to be done with care and
understanding. It's not sufficient to just cut them all off.

I worked on one car where this had been a problem. Things never worked right
until I unglued the stump of the hacked off cable, sorted out the wires,
connected the ones that needed to be connected and insulated the rest.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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