High resistance at the connector caused the overheating.  More current,
loose contact in the connection, corrosion, etc.  It's highly likely you
will not have any more problems with your fix.  This is a chronic problem on
old MGBs with bullet connectors too, but they can be sanded clean and the
female ends easily re-formed with pliers, but often they break from
corrosion.  Gotta love the old car hobby, always something to do!

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Alistair Bell
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 10:31 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Headlight low beam failure

I was a bit hesitant posting this in my blog, might be that I was pushing
too many electrons through a connector pin. Or it might just be one of those
self exacerbating connection issues. Either way I wasn't sure it would be
helpful for others to see the failure.

Anyhoo, complete low beam failure caused by bad connector on back of fuse
panel.

https://shufti.blog/2016/12/03/vanagon-headlight-low-beam-failure/

Alistair