Erik: Had a similar problem and it was the igntion switch. This was
discussed on the list a week or so ago and the problem turned out to be the
ignition switch in that case too. The part isn't that expensive either.

Alan Pickersgill
Ottawa Ontario
Canada

'8 5 Homemade Transporter/Westfalia conversion.

At 07:53 PM 12/12/99 -0500, Erik Feddersen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for all those helped on my OXY sensor question.
>
>Heres a new one!  I've owned the car about a week  so not much history
>and yes its possible my brain didn't do as much checking on the car as I
>should have (it was that vw bus brain short circuit syndrome :-)  The
>only thing I can say is that for one day I drove at night and everything
>was normal, now we have a problem and heres the scenario...
>
>OK, Start the car, put the lights on and heres the first puzzler, the
>high beam indicator light is on BUT only the low beams are lit, toggle
>the high beam indicator light out, and high beams are go on.  Theres
>more.  Also when I put the lights on, the tach and clock go dead and I
>get the idiot lights from oil and radiator to light up.
>
>Any hints out there..  I'm thinking a missing ground somewhere up in the
>instrument cluster,
>
>Happy Holidays
>
>Erik
>
Alan Pickersgill
Ottawa, ON
Canada