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Mad Manx KombiKroozin

456 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#344956
ok this maybe a bit hard to explain- I was under my buggy and at the front nose cone on the drivers side, just above the front gearbox mount is a hex nut about 21mm, with a smooth round protruding end and an electrical wire coming out of the end of this that snakes back along the gearbox upto near the motor where it ends in a fuse.Its not the gearbox earth either.

Could this be a reverse light switch? I get no postive current from this when in reverse or anything else for that matter.Did beetles ever have one? My spare gearbox doesnt have this part at all.


- '71 Kombi (Died 24/11/05😢 ) - '65 manx (smick) -'63 beetle (bent) -'73 Singlecab (new to the stable)

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#344961
yep - sounds like the reversing switch

should be 2 wires. One coming from power and the other going to reverse lights
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