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Richard F
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 Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 1:57 pm Post subject: Ground Locations--1961 Beetle |
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| I have a 1961 Beetle and would like to know if there are diagrams showing the locations of all the ground points. I don't mean schematic diagrams, which tell you which objects are grounded, but not where those ground points are on the frame. Is there any kind of ground point map or is it just the brute force method of crawling around and looking? Any help would be most appreciated. |
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grandpa pete
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glutamodo 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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VW didn't go to dedicated ground points until model year 1969. Most items ground out by being bolted to the body. The only real ground points are the battery ground strap, the transaxle nose-cone-to-body ground strap, the wires going from the headlight buckets to the body screws inside the trunk area, and the tab on the wiper motor where the wiper rack bolts to the cowling.
Oh, and there's the steering coupler ground strap.
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Richard F
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| grandpa pete wrote: |
The whole frame is your ground circuit
See the diagram page 446 of your Idiot guide |
Thank you for this. But my concern is to find out which parts are grounded on the frame via ground wires (like the front lights) and where those wires are and, on the other hand, which parts are grounded by being directly attached to the frame (like the tail lights). I suspect that my Beetle has a grounding problem and that a wire-grounded part is more likely the culprit than a directly grounded part. |
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Richard F
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| glutamodo wrote: |
VW didn't go to dedicated ground points until model year 1969. Most items ground out by being bolted to the body. The only real ground points are the battery ground strap, the transaxle nose-cone-to-body ground strap, the wires going from the headlight buckets to the body screws inside the trunk area, and the tab on the wiper motor where the wiper rack bolts to the cowling.
Oh, and there's the steering coupler ground strap.
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Excellent--that is exactly the information I was looking for. Many thanks for this. |
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grandpa pete
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Richard F
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| be aware that new paint can mess up good grounds |
Yes, thanks for this.
But I doubt that I need worry about that since I am pretty sure that my Beetle has not seen new paint since it left Wolfsburg. |
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