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The usual electrical - headlights come on with ignition

Someone redid the wiring on my 68 Beetle. They used a universal fuse panel. They mentioned replacing a switch but I don't know which one. I have a stock 10 fuse box coming.

Problem is the brights come on with the ignition (and the car stays running when the lights are on). When I flip the dimmer switch I have both brights & dims at the same time. Someone told me this could burn up my generator.

Any idea how to fix this?

More clues:

9 pin box is missing. My emergency light switch has only 2 terminals, not ?8-10 like most '68s. I tried replacing the headlight switch but that made no difference. Most of the wires I've traced using the 68-69 diagram from VintageBus were correct as far as I can tell. Emergency light switch is disconnected. I think my car is a late '67 (chassis 118-016xxx)

I'd like to replace the 9pin box or at least its function and get the emergency light switch going again too.

Thanks,

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Paul Haney
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Ugh! My head hurts already! OK. Early '68 used the 9 term flasher WITH the 2 term Emerg switch. They go together. Late '68 used a single (4 term) flasher with the big multi=term Emerg switch.

If the turn signals work now, you'll need to get a multi-term Emerg switch and do some wiring.

I see the Headlight problem as un-related. There must be a wiring mistake here you haven't uncovered. Trace everything involving the dimmer relay and the headlight fuses. There is a simplified diagram on my web site.

You can e-mail me if we need to work this thru one bit (Byte?) at a time.

Speedy Jim

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Speedy Jim

Thanks Speedy Jim. They don't call you Speedy for nothin'.

You were right (of course) about the headlights. I finally saw the obvious. The bar on the universal fuse box connected all the hots together so the brights were wired hot when the ignition was on. I removed the brights from the fuse box and added an inline fuse and they work perfectly.

Everything works correctly except the emergency flasher. I have a 3 prong flasher but one wire is cut off (ground?). Don't see a relay other than the headlight dimmer.

Is there any simple way to wire the e-flasher switch in parallel with the turn signals w/o the later flasher switch? If not I may let it go for awhile. Need a new carb next.

Take care, Paul Haney

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Paul Haney

Who would have thought of the jumper?? Good job!

The real easy way for Hazard switch: DPDT Toggle switch on dash.

Connect switch common(s) to Blk/Wh/Grn Connect one pole to Blk/Wh Connect other pole to Blk/Grn

Toggle On makes all 4 lights flash. This only works with the Ignition on though...

Speedy Jim

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