DUBSTAR'S PROJECT - Weiss Hase - 1976 Golf LS

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what did you do with the old stereo?

Do you want to sell it?

Nice MK1 btw!

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Next on the list is 1 of 3 things:

1) Get the parts where I have treated rust resprayed. I just want to do some patches, not a full respray.

2) Upgrade the brakes, suspension and wheels/tyres. I have almost all the parts already.

3) Redo the interior. I have new door cards and will order a new carpet set. But I am really struggling to find some nice replacement seats. I want some Mk2 seats/Mk1 Cabby seats/Recaros, but they have to be nice condition.

The stereo is not for sale sorry as I want to keep original parts with the car.

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I haven't had much time to do anything recently, but managed to fit in a few hours to correct the brake light set-up that was in Andy when I got him.

The set-up looked like this:








However, what is really funny, is that the wires were connected in such a way that this switch did nothing! The car was running off the original hydraulic brake light switches that are connected at the master cylinder. I guess someone put it tiogether, figured the brake lights still worked and left it at that?!?!?

Anyway, I plan on running a later master cylinder without the hydraulic switches and, since I went ahead and purchased a replacement brake light switch anyway, I thought I might as well correct the issue now.

I actually found a motorbike universal brake light switch that would work much better in the Mk1. Here's a pic:





You can buy them from ebay here. It is made by K&S and has a part number 12-0001

The Mk1 pedal cluster is set up perfectly for this switch. All you need to do is drill a 10/12mm hole (mine was already there for the previous switch), bend the activating wire so that it can loop through the existing hole in the pedal and Roberts your Mothers Brother.







Now on to the wiring.

Whoever set up the previous switch had connected one wire to ground and one wire to the red/yellow in the pic below. This doesn't work (at least on my car). For the switch to work it needs to switch between the red/yellow and pink/black wire. I believe the blue/brown wire is part of the low pressure warning system.



For the moment I have the hydraulic switch hooked up and the pedal switch running as a parallel 'back-up'.

And here's the 'engineering' of the old switch.....