Gen light woes

I have a '73 beetle. Today while I was driving then gen light came on.
I pulled over and shut er off right away, checked everything I could
see and all looked good. Then I noticed that the flashers are not
working either. (they were fine before) I am suspecting a short or
grounding issue as some of the wiring is a bit unorganized, esp in the
front of the car. I am somewhat new at this so any suggestions would
be great. Oh, it seems to be running fine. Thanks

Stevie G wrote:
> I have a '73 beetle. Today while I was driving then gen light came on.
> I pulled over and shut er off right away, checked everything I could
> see and all looked good. Then I noticed that the flashers are not
> working either. (they were fine before) I am suspecting a short or
> grounding issue as some of the wiring is a bit unorganized, esp in the
> front of the car. I am somewhat new at this so any suggestions would
> be great. Oh, it seems to be running fine. Thanks
>

A fuse making poor contact will do exactly that.
They can "look" good and still be bad or not making contact.

Get thee a diagram he
http://www.vintagebus.com/wiring.html


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Speedy Jim
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Clean the fuse contacts and replace iffy looking fuses....specifically
number 9 IIRC. Clean them all anyway. Same thing happened to me. All
weird electrical gremlins usually start with bad fuse contacts.

The same fuse that runs the signal flashers in the cluster runs the gen
and oil lights and interior lighting if I remember (and I probably
don't) so check your official manual to see what fuse does what if you
need to know.