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Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:03 pm

Well i was instaling a tach. and i put the wire that goes to the coil on the wrong side because i'm a dumb as. i melted the wire inside the distrubitor i guess i have to replace the points and the ondensior is there anything else i need to replace??

Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:07 pm

Nope... new points and condensor should fix it.

Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:10 pm

i take it you've heard of this?

Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:12 am

LOL I never hooked up a tach wrong but I have hooked up the condenser to the wrong side before. #-o

Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:05 pm

well i put new in.. and it did the same thing? WHAT COULD I BE :x

Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:28 pm

do i need a new coil some one hlep me out here.. i have no clue

Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:08 am

What color wires are you hooking up to what????

you should be hooking up just a green wire to the tach to the negative side of the coil.... same side as the condenser wire goes to

the where your tach is you have the ususal + ( red) - (Blk) and maybe a blue for the instrument light.

but remember some black wires on a VW ARE ACTUALLY HOT 12V+

Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:25 am

ive has wires melt before and usually the problem was it was not grounded. or you might have some bare wires touching eachother. just my two cents.

Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:09 pm

Here's how the coil and dizzy should be wired.... thanks to Speedy Jim!
Tach should go to the #1 terminal on the coil, same as the original green wire to the dizzy. If wires are melting you have the hot lead shorted to ground somewhere, or the dizzy hooked to the #15 terminal on the coil. The black harness lead should be hot with the ignition switch. The points are just a switch to ground, so if you have them hooked up to the hot lead, they are a direct short when closed and wires will melt.

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