I am a HUGE fan of Japanese movies. I agree Mifune IS Japan’s John Wayne. Akira Kurosawa is like their John Huston.

Looks like the pics are WAY before Japan’s strangle hold on the auto industry…

Good on ya, Bill. Sorry we missed you for breakfast this a.m. I got home around 5 and unloaded a whole truck full of Speedster/VW junk and tools and stuff from Alan Merklin. I have his Porsche banner now…

made it home safe, it was great seeing Dale , Ed & Bill again . we need more of you guys to show up next year. the speedsters are a great bunch

I had the exact same problem when I first got my FiberFab.  It turned out to be a bad ground.  I’m not much of a fix it myself guy so I took the car to Gene’s Foreign Car Service on West Chester Pike in Broomall.  They fixed it and they will do inspections.  If you decide to take it there, ask for Harold and tell him “Frank” with the red MG rep…[Read more]

Check the grounds. Always first step in a non metal car.

You’re in Malvern. Carlisle is 1-1/2 hours away. There is a small army of kit car owners here more than willing to assist. The hotel parking lot sometimes resemble a race car paddock. Remember to attend in the future.

Good luck with inspection.

Victoria
What Allen means by checking the ground wire on the headlight connector is to verify connectivity between the negative post on the battery and the ground wire on the connector. To check continuity I use a volt/ohm meter. If you do not get a confirmation of connectivity you can try to trace the wire from the connector back to some place…[Read more]

I’d first check the ground wire. Could be loose. Pull the headlight and check the headlight connector. The ground wire (if VW color coding is used will be BROWN.) If not VW wiring it’ll be black and probably will NOT run all the way to the dash. Most likely it’ll run to the chassis somewhere near the headlight area. My TD is a Fiberfab and is…[Read more]

My plan was to try to troubleshoot this myself as I don’t have much time.  As I mentioned, the car is being inspected tomorrow.

My fiberfab does not use a VW wiring harness. The factory used single colour wires with numbered tags on my TDR that after 35 years have dried and fallen off some of the wires. There is a Fiberfab wiring diagram in the tech manual section of the website

To add to Kall’s diagnostics a common problem that can be intermittent in nature is a bad ground. You can test with a Volt/ohm meter or a 12volt light bulb with alligator clips as per John Muir’s diagram. Before offering more advice are you going to do the diagnostics and repairs yourself or go to a mechanic?

Sorry you are “short” of time to repair your “disconnect”.

Troubleshooting thoughts:

1. Goes on and off – can’t be a fuse, they only work once.

2. Both headlights? – can’t be the bulb.

3.  Both high and low beams – not the “dipper” switch on the floor.

4. Does your car have the headlight “high/low” switch as part of the turn signal switch? -…[Read more]

How do the splines look in those, Bill?