wiring help 1974 VW beetle

[popcharles58]

Need help with wiring 1974 VW beetle. anyone have picture of the wiring at the fuse panel. Also the hazard warning flasher relay location, or is it part of the turn signal relay. need all the help I can get
Thanks

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[doc]

Jump over to thesamba.com and search for wiring diagrams. Somewhere on the site they have a mostly complete list of wiring diagrams. That should help a lot.

doc

[sideshow]

Avoid the samba until your internet skills get a little hardened. Read up on Vintage Bus http://vintagebus.com/wiring/index.html for some color coded versions, then compare to what you have. The Bentley is also an excellent choice in dead tree "what is it" aid.

[doc]

What can i say? Good advice from sideshow.

Bentley remains the Bible. Make the investment.

doc

[Marc]

Newer editions of the Bentley manual have black & white wiring diagrams - you're much better off finding an older printing in a used book store (or perhaps someplace like Amazon).

The online diagrams at vintagebus.com are in color - and free but not all are from Bentley...avoid the others like the plague.

Starting with 1973, the good ol' user-friendly semi-pictorial diagrams were replaced with "current-track" schematics. Simpler to draft up, but nowhere near as easy to follow for most folks. My recommendation is that you look at a 1972 diagram to "get your bearings" when tackling an electrical problem, since most all of the wiring is basically the same. In case of conflict, of course, the 1974 diagram has precedence. http://www.vintagebus.com/wiring/1300_a ... 1971-1.jpg

One thing you'll find on the `74 is the one-year-only seatbelt interlock relay (J34 on the Bentley diagram). It performs other functions so it's not a matter of simply removing it to eliminate that annoyance; what the dealers did was to just unplug the seat sensor wires. But inside that relay there are contacts for the starter solenoid circuit, and over time they can oxidize and reduce power available to the solenoid. I prefer to just splice together the two Term 50 wires (the white/red-stripe and the red/black-stripe) to cut those contacts out of the circuit.

Your car has a single flasher unit which serves for both the t'signals and hazards - the hazard switch determines its source of power, either ignition-switched Term 15 via fuse 12 for t'signals or on-all-the-time Term 30 via fuse 8 when you turn on the hazards.

[SCOTTRODS]

One thing you'll find on the `74 is the one-year-only seatbelt interlock relay (J34 on the Bentley diagram). It performs other functions so it's not a matter of simply removing it to eliminate that annoyance; what the dealers did was to just unplug the seat sensor wires. But inside that relay there are contacts for the starter solenoid circuit, and over time they can oxidize and reduce power available to the solenoid. I prefer to just splice together the two Term 50 wires (the white/red-stripe and the red/black-stripe) to cut those contacts out of the circuit.

I remember the first time I ran into a problem with that too. My cure was the same as well. I was stuck at work and young and dumb at the time, but I did have a manual (Don't remember, but probably a Haynes or Clymer), and me and my supervisor worked it out in about half an hour of studying. Couldn't understand why they tied all that crap into that relay... If I remember right though, I jumpered "car side" of the relay, in case I ever had to replace the relay and didn't remember that issue (which wasn't likely as weird as it was at the time).

[Shebug]

Hello! I bought my ‘74 super beetle with the constant buzzer going off!!! The seats were unplugged but the buzzer still is going off all the time! Help me! I’ve just learned to crank the radio to drown it out!

[Bruce2]

The buzzer is the key left in when the door is open. Nothing to do with the seatbelt interlock on the starter.
Start with the left door switch.