Meet Ziggy - '79 GLD MK1

**GOLFBALLS** · 22-12-2009, 01:58 AM

Great stuff as usual pete!
I feel like posting your name in the 'things that get me inspired thread'!

BTW, I've NEVER seen a South African car with good wiring. They've probably all been stolen numerous times, rebirthed, crashed, rebirthed again...

Cheers

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 03:34 PM

It lives! Fired up no problems, just required a little twist of the dizzy and off it went.

Wiring next, it's hot wired at the moment.

Pete

**Preen59** · 26-12-2009, 05:09 PM

Good stuff, Pete.

**dubai gti** · 26-12-2009, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Peter Jones

It lives! Fired up no problems, just required a little twist of the dizzy and off it went.

Wiring next, it's hot wired at the moment.

Pete

Any start-up smoke, Pete ? or has the valve stem seals fixed the donk ?

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by dubai gti

Any start-up smoke, Pete ? or has the valve stem seals fixed the donk ?

Bit early to tell yet, there's always a bit of smoke when you start up something like this. There's WD40 in the bores, residual diesel in the tank, diesel soot in the pipes and who knows what else.

Needs to go for a few runs before I'll really know.

Now that it's in I'll do some comp tests which will let me know more.

Starts really easily on the first turn and the water choke is operating perfectly.

Pete

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 07:08 PM

Righto, got stuck into the wiring and found lots of interesting stuff.

Additional relay bases, Glow plug, rear wiper and boot unlock!

The boot unlock kit looks like a dealer option there's a a few OEM parts in the setup such as the relay base and solenoid cover.

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 07:22 PM

I've got mixed emotions as I remove some of this stuff. Some of what I'm pulling out would have taken ages to put in and is actually pretty neat.

Take this for example. It took me a while to figure this out as I never had the diesel running and the electrics are all out of commission at the moment.

It would appear that someone needed a reminder to turn off the cold start.

It's a bit easier to see how it works once it's out. The toggle switch is a spring loaded momentary action type.

All that to drive this little LED

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 07:34 PM

This switch was used to control the GTI driving lights I think. The grill didn't come with the car and it's going back to singles so the switch is coming out.

This switch under the dash near the driver operates the hatch release.

Mechanical brake light switch will stay.

I'm going to pop another console in, this one's got a few too many holes.

The lighter socket was just wired in parallel with the dash socket. The light was wired to the glow plug circuit.

This car even has a light in the boot!

Think I'll Leave the switch and find a nicer light to go in there.

**Peter Jones** · 26-12-2009, 07:40 PM

I'm going to keep the clocks but move them into another fascia to get rid of the extra holes and fix up the red lenses over the warning lights. How's that for some mileage?