Hello all,

Well, put the new exhaust on the '74 Safare this weekend, but now 
need to work on the electrical system to make her street legal.  
If I can get this working by the weekend, there's an outside 
chance I could make the Pennsylvania trip!  

I've got odd things (odd by normal standards, not necessarily 
by VW standards) happening with the rear lights.  I was wondering 
if anyone's seen anything like this on their bus:

- When I started, both brake lights ok w/ headlights off
- With headlights on passenger tail and brake lights worked intermittently
- Changed tail/brake light bulb on passenger side
- Now both tail lights on all the time - headlights on or off
- Brake lights work (with tail lights on all the time)
- While checking all this, rear passenger turn signal went south
- Swapped rear passenger turn bulb w/ backup light
- Turn signals now ok, backup lights out (bad bulb)

Some other observations:  The fuse box has lots of rust on the
contacts - I plan to clean that up next.  One fuse is blown, although
I have no idea what it's for.  I tried swapping it with another 
one to see if it had any effect, but it did nothing.  

Once I get the exterior lights working, I've got to get the 
interior lights going (no dash lights).  Does anyone know where
I can get a copy of the schematics for a '74 bus?  I've given 
some thought to running a whole new harness from front to back,
anyone ever attempt this?

That's all for now, thanks in advance for any help.

John Breitenbach (bbach@cnct.com)
'74 Safare Custom Camper