all the electrical issues

[gnarballs]

blinking lights and a gas gauge that ticks.

I know its not charging the battery but even when it was the gas gauge would do the thing.

could it be the ignition ?

Link

[sjbartnik]

shitty grounds. Fix yer instrument panel grounds.
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1965 Volkswagen 1500 Variant S
2000 Kawasaki W650

[gnarballs]

on the fuse block?

[sjbartnik]

Nope, find the brown wire (brown is ground in VW) that comes off the back of the fuel gauge/idiot light cluster. Follow it to where it goes. Where it goes varies by year but it should terminate on a tab affixed to the body. If it's just dangling under the dash somewhere there's your problem.

Sometimes the grounds daisy chain through a few devices before terminating on a ground tab. Follow the chain all the way through.

Disconnect the battery before fucking around under the dash. It's easier to get up under there if you take the driver's seat out.
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1965 Volkswagen 1500 Variant S
2000 Kawasaki W650

[gnarballs]

'preciate it! thank you sir I will check into that

[gt1953]

If you have a dremel tool with the little wire wheel. If not get one. Then disconnect the battery. Clean every ground connection you can find, nice bright and shiny. Remove the fuses and wire wheel all of those connections. I had to do that with my vehicle. Took quite a long time, end result is everything works great.
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[ataraxia]

CAIG DeoxIT works well and will not eat the vinyl coating on the wires but it's expensive.