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Subject:Re: `66 electrical problems!
Date:Wed, 3 May 1995 13:28:14 -0700

>I recently went to a wrecking yard and bought a `new' emergency light
>relay for my `66. (They're ~75.00 new!) That's the stupid box that goes
>under the dash that has 9 connections going to it, is a one-year-only
>VW electrical thingie, and, IMHO, is a Bad Idea. 
>   Anyway, I put this one in, and--nothing. Nothing at all. (My old one
>worked, just smelled like it was going to cause a fire someday.) So, I
>put the old one back in; now my turn signals only work when the brake
>lights are on! And my brake lights work not at all. I was really careful
>about making sure all the wires went back/were put on correctly. Any
>insight from anyone? (I have a nice schematic of the system...hmm. Mabey
>I just answered my own question.)
>

More wiring, eeeewww, maybe.....the old one burned up because the wires
weren't on right.

Eug,
'71