Bill

    VW has never been too good at wiring  INMHO, and they run all grounds to
a common point. So if the two headlight grounds go to a y then to the ground
the first thing that happened was a poor connection got hot then the y kind
of burned up. I've had several problems of that sort on my 84 already.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Davidson" <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Headlights not working (?) --> FIXED!

> > Bingo!
> > I think it's fixed...
> > The two ground wires coming from the headlights had fused together
> > because they had
> > been squeezed together into one connector at the ground under the dash.
> > The two wires had formed a  one-inch melted 'Y' shape coming from the
> > ground crimp connector.
>
> Maybe... but I don't think fusing two ground wires would cause this
problem.
> You could have hooked them together in first place it it would not have
> caused the problem. However, I would be very interested to find out what
> caused the fusing.... or if you're mistaken about them both being ground
> wires.
>
> Bill
>