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Subject:Re: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
From:Jim Felder
Date:Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:31:44 -0500

OK, I'm not sure, but... did you cut the wires into individual wires?
Sounds like the designer of the kit doesn't want the headlight grounds
served by double wires through a single terminal. There are better ways to
do this, like relaying the lights and/or running grounds to the frame near
the lights instead of all the way back to the star.

You might ask BD directly, they are pretty good at helping with stuff like
that.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Dennis Jowell <dennisjowell@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jim
> The basic problem on the headlight install is step one of the
> instructions. " unplug the double ground wire from ground star and cut them
> into 2 singles wires. Check to make sure you have the correct ground
> connection by noticing with the ground wire unplugged that the existing
> Headlights go out" sounds good- I disconnected all the ground wire one at a
> time from both stars and the headlights don't go out. I will try again this
> afternoon.
>
> Dennis Jowell
> Scotch Hollow Farm
> Newbury, Vermont
>
>