The original headlight grounds wires do go to the front towards the main panel. I just can't locate the correct ones. To simplify the install I will cut the ground wires at the headlight assembly and ground them there on bare metal. Then I can go forward with the installation of the upgrade.
I just needed some time to think on it. Dennis, Your suggestion set me thinking. Thank you again for that.
Laters,

Dennis Jowell
Scotch Hollow Farm
Newbury, Vermont 

> On Jul 16, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All these instructions assume the van's wiring is original. If someone
> changed the headlight grounding in anyway all bets are off. It is very
> common for the headlights to be re-grounded near the lights which is a great
> idea. Reduce the length of the wire run and the resulting voltage drop. 
> 
> Denis
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Dennis Jowell
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 6:16 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Bus depot headlight upgrade "Vision Kit" for 1988 vanagon GL
> 
> 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