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Fuse panel connections - and now taillight fun
I missed a lot of this thread, but hope you're faring well. Mk1 wiring is a
challenge, and I've been lucky enough to have POs that did little
additional "creative" wiring. GL with it!
Cathy, the PO from hell...
On 9:02 am 10/02/07 Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanx Chuck and Dan. I see the G1 H6 stuff now, I'm actually using
Kirsten's Current flow diagram (http://www.funksoulkitty.org/technicalda
> ta/technicaldata.htm) for a '79, which seems (so far!) to be on target w
> ith my '81. But some of the wiring has been .... creative. I have also
> been trying to figure out what is wrong with the taillights, and the wi
> ring back there was an abomination. There was even phone cable!!!!! spli
> ced in back there and I have no idea why. Also lots of fiberglass insul
> ation (household stuff) stuffed in every nook and cranny. I hate that c
> rap.
>
> So far on the taillights- bulbs replaced. Brake and turn signals
> work. No taillights though. When I turn on the switch, I get -12v
> through the fuse location- is that right?
>
> Also a CIS fun update. The CIS-basic unit that I bought had a stuck
> plunger in it. And in the process of trying to get it out, I shattered
> the end of the metering barrel with too much force on the vicegrips.
> :P On a side note, the plunger is a very hard metal and after I had
> given up on being gentle, I had vicegrips torqued down hard enough to
> flatten the teeth on them and it did not even scratch the plunger. !!
> I had to remove the 8 torx bolts and separate the CIS unit to pull out
> the barrel. If you've never seen the inside of a CIS unit, it's pretty
> neat. The machining tolerances are amazing and surprisingly enough it
> was very clean inside. The metering barrel looks like some sort of
> spaceship part. :P So what to do. I pulled apart my existing CIS-E
> unit to see if the barrels are similar. While CIS-E functions in a
> similar way to CIS, and they look the same on the outside, (other than
> being aluminum) they are built VERY differently on the inside.
> Little springs, caps, plates, a gasket, and stuff everywhere once you
> pop them apart. But the metering barrel is almost identical. Since
> CIS-E does not use a CPR, the top of the barrel had a pressed-in cap, a
> quick tap on a bolt with a hammer and it popped off. The plunger from
> the old CIS fit the new barrel quite nicely and in a few minutes, I had
> a CIS-E barrel installed in a CIS-basic head with the CIS-basic
> plunger. I have installed the head on the cleaned-up CIS-basic
> metering plate, which is the same diameter as the CIS-E version but has
> 3 angles cut in the tapered bit, where the CIS-E had a much narrower
> single angle. I have not put fuel pressure to it yet but it will be
> interesting to see what happens. It has been a fun experiment so far
> though. :)
>
> Thanks again for the wiring info.
>
> Brendan
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx>; scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2007 3:42:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Fuse panel connections
>
> Most of them aren't used, maybe only 3 or 4 IIRC, but you can locate
> them on the schematic as "G" or "H" connectors. Such as G1 or H6 or
> whatever.
>
> From: "Brendan Doyle" <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:59 PM
> Subject: Fuse panel connections
>
>
> Checking all of my fuse panel connections to make sense of a nicely
> hacked up wiring job. What connections on the back of the fuse panel
> go to where? Most of the actual fuses and relays seem to be where
> they are supposed to be, but the accessory relays and the connections
> on the back have me puzzled. I have good diagrams of the front
> connections and the voltage flow paths but cannot seem to locate any
> information on the dozen or so spade connections on the back of the
> panel. This is a Mk1 Scirocco, and the fuse panel seems "correct".
> Thanks!
>
> Brendan
>
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