77 Spider with a spaghetti mess...

[beatkiddo]

I am a new owner of a great little Spider with a recent engine/trans rebuild about 4-5K miles ago. She has the standard rocker panel rust, as well as the tire well, and the left side of the drivers pan. Other than that, she is great!!! Well, and some wiring just "hanging around".

The PO had removed the side panels on the console, and had cut (if you want to call it that) the radio hole open to try an fit an after-market radio in there. In doing this, I guess the four "gem lights" were pulled from the sockets, and the oil gauge is now not working.

Any ideas on what light goes in which "gem"? Also, the oil gauge does not appear to have any missing wires of clips off the back.

I have requested a wiring diagram from one of the other threads, but if anyone know right off hand what color wires are what, and where the lights go, that would be great.

[Captain Alfa]

Hi Bruce,

here's some "transatlantic" help from Germany. Recently I purchased a 1978 Spider imported from California. Center console (and electrics underneath) were a nightmare, but now I got an original US center console and electrics are more or less fixed. Here we are: upper left is fuel pressure (2 pink and a blue/white wire). Upper right for oil pressure (pink and gray). Lower left normal headlight, do not know the correct english term (black and yellow). Lower right is high beam (gray/gray blue). Hope that my wiring fits to your model, but lights can also be identified by function, e.g. switch on high beam and look what happens . Concerning oil pressure gauge: pull off wire from sending unit and connect it to ground, gauge should display max pressure. If so, a bad connection from wire to sending unit or bad sending unit itself is likely. Arrrrghh, technical English... Good luck, it's like a puzzle!
Regards
Pierre

[beatkiddo]

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Originally Posted by Captain Alfa Hi Bruce, Arrrrghh, technical English... Good luck, it's like a puzzle! Regards Pierre

[Captain Alfa]

"Danke" is perfect. These diagrams from this board are extremely helpful, particularly when you drive a US car abroad the States… Lucky man, you got the plan printed out on a plotter. My print is regular size, quite challenging for eyes…
Bye
Pierre

1978 Spider (Fun!!)
2005 Audi A6 (Just a car)