Kyle, when that fuse blows, do the brake lights, horn and emergency flasher not work per Ray's comment? Can you send a photo of your fuse box to the list, both the front (showing the blown fuse) and also the back? (showing all the wiring connectors). The key is going to be determining which of the circuits on that fuse is causing it to blow. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [vintagvw] Mysterious electrical issues Did you fix the wiper issue? That is powered off of fuse 1. The ignition wire is not fused, but comes off the power side of fuse 1 which is why it starts. Perhaps your 12 to 6 volt inverter is shorted. You also have brake lights, horn, and emergency flasher off of fuse 1. Ray
-----Original Message----- From: Kyle Davis <[email protected]> To: vintagvw <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 11:01 am Subject: [vintagvw] Mysterious electrical issues Fuse 1 keeps blowing on my 66. It's been converted to 12 volts, although poorly by a previous owner. Recently the wiper motor (still 6 volt, still hooked up to the voltage drop) failed on me. Interesting thing is the Bakelite plastic fuse cover mentions that being fuse 8, but I really think it is fuse 1 for that's where all of the fuse 1 stuff goes according to the diagram I've seen. Even with fuse 1 being blown, it does still start. Ideas? Kyle 66 bug -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
