Reverse lights

[Stinkonia]

Ok so I hear it's common, but I was poking around in my 73 standard and I find a blown fuse common off my coil, I said " who knows what that will fix" will it broke reverse took the fuse out reverse works again. My question how can I go backwards and still have reverse lights

[dubllyou]

Let me see if I understand you correctly. You replaced a burnt fuse and the car won't go backwards?

Can you be more clear?

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[HappyPill77]

I have a 1974 Beetle with no reverse lights. I am worried it will fail state inspection tomorrow.

All of my other lights work.
All of my fuses look OK (in the fuse box under the dash with 12 fuses).

The crappy Advanced Auto Parts place only had a multi-pack with 2-8a fuses.

Q) Is there another in-line fuse for the reverse lights I need to look for? If so, where is it?

Thanks in advance!

HappyPill77
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[vw-jeeper-jeff]

Make sure it is connected to the correct post on the coil. I had mine on the wrong post last week and every time I would put it in reverse it killed the engine.
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[Glenn]

The reverse lights should be on the "15" terminal on the coil which is the positive side. If you put it on the "1" side which is the points, your engine will stall every time you put it in reverse.
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[HappyPill77]

Thanks for the info. I looked for the wire with the inline fuse in the engine compartment. All I found was a wire with a three prong connector with no matching partner wire to connect it to. There are two other green wires that come from the engine and are just zip-tied together not connected.

I guess I need to untie these green wires and identify the parts that they are connected to!

[dubllyou]

One of those green wires is hooked to the oil pressure sending unit and should go to the oil warning indicator light in the dash. I'll bet that light doesn't come on with the key, does it?

The other wire is from the points/condensor to the coil. It's probably hooked up or the car wouldn't run.
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[TjdTaylor]

its a good prank to put somebodys reverse light wire on the points side. Everytime the car is put in reverse, turns the car off. Check that somedody didnt do this to you.
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[ashman40]

Look at the wires connected to your ignition coil.

One black wire should come from the wire harness and connect to the #15 (+) terminal on the coil

Another black wire should run from this same terminal to the carb idle cutoff solenoid. The wire should daisy-chain from the solenoid to the other side of the carb and end at the choke coil.

A third black wire should come from the ignition coil terminal and run to an inline fuse holder on the fan shroud that looks like this:




That wire should continue around the right side of the fan shroud and exit the engine compartment through a hole in the firewall tin. You can see the hole on the left side of this tin where the metal angles:




The wire then goes to the reverse light switch in the tranny. Then it returns through the same hole (be sure there is a grommet here) before splitting into two wires that run to each of the tail lights, and end at the reverse lights.

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[Cadaver]

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/wiring/73-up111wiring.jpg

i clicked tech-Knuckle wiring. above....

clear as mud right? the Letter code index is there too.
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[Gumboguy]

Wheres the dad gum fuse for the back up lights on a 74 bus? I see that the older years have one coming off the coil. I dont see one on my bus. The lights have worked in the past, now they dont.

I replaced the switch on the tranny because it was bad. I metered the leads and get no power to the switch. So I have a disconnect somewhere.

Please advise.

[ashman40]

Maybe you need to post this in the Bus (T2) forum??
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[TheStanfordWagen]

Unless you're really OCD, you can run reverse lights, without the inline fuse. Just wire it up according the wiring diagram, without the fuse for your model year.
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[pbnj]

I've heard back up lights are not required for state inspection. Just a convenience for us to backup. Don't forget about the backup switch too
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[sjbartnik]

[pbnj]

Never saw anyone test for that- just brake lights
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