Electrical Disaster Repair! - 1965 Karmann Ghia
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This 1965 VW Ghia just arrived with severe electrical issues. Word is getting around that I am the go-to guy for electrical problems these days!
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That was a fast repair. It just needed love.
Well, it took 3 days, lol... it wasn't so fast! But it made it into 1 video! 😁👍🦆💩
VW wiring always looks like a basket of snakes!
Yeah it's a horrible knotted mess, and thats how it came from factory lol!
Great work my friend!! I really like that color!! Ohhhh a pulled pork burger!!
Thanks man! That burger was delicious too.... lol!
Nice car and i remember the shift reminder speedometer from my 64 bug
Yeah, I'm a dummy for how I was reading it.... lol! Most of my cars lacked those marks!
Beautiful color. Nice easy fix, nuts needed someone with a brain to sort it out.
Pulled pork burgers are good, try a slab of brisket between some burger patties 🤙
Oh man, a local BBQ joint I used to run an advertisement for on the radio, I (unofficially) named a burger after me that was exactly that. LoL!
nice job.
Thanks Jim! After much sorting, its all good!
Hey duck man great job on the car McGee that's nice to the car man sounds like it runs pretty darn good man anyway keep on keeping on bud
Getty-up-n-go Karman Gia!
Yeah, not bad for a 40-horse!
Soon the whole USA will know the Duckman can fix it😁😁
LoL maybe... but we know most people don't listen lolol!
Whoa it looks awesome 🤘🏽🔥💙
Yeah for sure, a very nice looking car indeed! Thanks man!
Brilliant job yet again duckman ,crazy what people do to the wiring in most vws . Cool looking ghia . Thanks for sharing
It really helps you figure out wiring issues when you are really good like yourself. Good video, and good explanation of your process. Nice Ghia. 👍 🦆
Thanks dude! Glad to have this one back on the road and fully functional!
wait a sec, isnt that Bee's Ghia??? finished?
Not even close... lol! But I did share this car with her, and she oogled it. She wasn't up for video, though! Maybe next time....
Gotta say that Ghia was done up nice, and when you started talking about this homemade bracket I had a feeling that was going to solve a majority of your issues. But it was kinda weird how something’s worked then didn’t then came back again. Think of the owner snags a new fuse block and connects things and cleans up the wiring a tad under the dash that area will look as nice as the exterior. And you might want to consider getting yourself another Karmin Ghia you looked good behind the wheel of that one, of course you’ll need to make some Glen modifications so you fit. I feel your pain I’m 6’4” tall myself so I hear you about lowering seat rails and smaller steering wheels or tilt steering just to get in the thing first of all
Well as I understand it didn't all work, then it went to paint, and then it came back from paint with worse electrical problems... lol... I told him that's what would happen.
I kind of the fixer around my neighborhood too. A friend is coming over tomorrow because his older Dodge pu truck's radio quit working. He said he changed the fuse, but I think there may be another one on the back of the radio. Will check but when stuff sits with the battery still hooked up corrosion with attach connectors. If all that checks out will tell him to remove the radio so I can test it on my work bench. my first car had an electric issue can't remember what but after I messed with it when I honked the horn the wipers would work and when I turned on the wipers the horn would honk. Friends got a good laugh, so I left it like that.
This reminds me of my first car, a VW based Fiberfab Dune Buggy. It was built in the late 60s, from a 1956 Beetle. Nothing electrical worked reliably, I fooled around with the old harness for a while and finally re wired the whole car with a VW harness I bought from JC Whitney. I had to run all the grounds back to the frame because of the fiberglass body. The horn was a problem the wiring in the column was bad so I just put a doorbell switch on the dash lol. And it all finally worked!
what a beautiful blue car //great job saving 1 more
Thanks man! That one really was nice! Shame it couldn't stay! Hehe!
For all of us "Old Timers" Duckman, these cars are still going to be popping up for sale and restoration so someone will always have a job working the old cars.
Beautiful car but man that over spray on them wires
Yeah you know Earl or I would have done it differently. 😁👍🏻
The blue wire on radio if it's an aftermarket is usually a remote wire for amp or power antenna
Good call, thanks! I'm not sure where this radio actually came from, but after I spoke to the owner turns out it's not staying in there anyway! Out she goes! 😁👍🏻🦆💩
Another 'Duckman FTW!'
Yayyyyyyy! Thank you!
@@DuckmanCycles I particularly like this one. Mine was pretty much the same blue but with Empi 8 spokes... meh, back in the day!
Thanks man, this one made for a good video, little sad it didn't get the stick around for a little longer.
Nice work and a nice Ghia !
Thank you sir! It came out working good!
Ooouuussssccccchhhhhh
WITZ! Haha!
So it was a mess now it not.Amazing you make it look so easy !
Well, for those in the know, its not all that hard. Thanks man! 😁👍🦆💩
I like how the German police and Army police used to drive Beetles and VW buses from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Indeed, mexicans and brazilians did it too for 30 years after that! :)
You are the best
Thanks man, I try to be good at what I do!
Electrical gremlins. Great job and video. If starting from scratch would you use modern fuses and relays?
Oh man... starting electrical from scratch... that happens to be a BIG SUBJECT here on this channel. I am literally doing exactly that! Here's a few videos of what's current:
ua-cam.com/video/g8ZQHtHnTJk/v-deo.html
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@@DuckmanCycles Thank you
You bet, man! It will be an interesting setup when its all done!
Thx for the content beautiful car:)
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching, and I appreciate the comment!
Amazing paint job! 👌
Yeah, it came out pretty good, eh? The owner is pleased! 😁👍🦆💩
I never understood why VW, with German engineering, didn’t have more OCD when it came to the wiring. It never looks clean.
Well specifically it was Bosch that developed the wiring harness, but most of the cars at the time had sloppy wiring.
Nice work again...Nice car
Thanks Clive! This one really is nice! Everyone seems to like it!
Great job, the wiring looks like spaghetti 😂, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
Yeah I'm not a big fan of that sloppy wiring, Eleanore will have something much better than that!
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I miss my '59 Ghia. That car was so much fun!!
Oh they are indeed, little hard to fit in though, lol! But I still like and appreciate them!
@@DuckmanCycles awesome
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You make wiring look so easy, haha. It's definitely my weakness.
It is easy....it's just not for everyone. 😁👍🏻🦆💩
@@DuckmanCycles I was able to fully rewire my beetle with a new loom. I just think the place I got mine from overcomplicated things. Got it done in the end. When are we going to get to see Eleanor again?
Is it a stock replacement wiring harness? I'm not certain how it will be overcomplicated, typically they just drop into the stock location and everything plugs in just like factory... unless they just gave you a bunch of wires and you had to make your own harness out of it, it chluksnt be any more complicated. 😁👍🏻🦆💩
No Mustangs here on this UA-cam channel, but perhaps you meant my car... Eleanore (with three E's, which I must keep clear for my own legal rights, just in case) you should be seeing more of soon.
@@DuckmanCycles That must get tedious. Look forward to seeing more of Eleanore.
Relays I don't mind; CANbus is the kind of thing that makes me crazy.
LoL I've kinda reinvented CANbus for my Beetle, update on that again soon!
@@DuckmanCycles Well, yeah, but that system actually makes sense, as opposed to what you see coming out on more modern vehicles...
It's better in a lot of ways, the first one of course is that I can fix it when something does happen. 😁👍🏻🦆💩
@@DuckmanCycles Nor does it suffer from having been created out of a three-way $#!tfight between Engineering, Management, and Accounting...
Well it has, but all three of those things is the same person, lol!
I have never been a fan of those old fuses...
You ane me both, they're kinda fire hazards, too!
Wooohooo! First!
Nope, you were second.... lol
Damnit!! I was really fast too lol
That's what she said! 😱😂👍
Is that the same blue as the 74 Stupid Beetle your working on. My brother had a Baja that was a lighter blue. Took it the Stradbroke Island and it used to 💩on all the 4wds on the beach and the dunes, it was less than half their weight and a fraction of their horsepower.
Very informative video about electrical repair on Karmann Ghia.
Thanks Hipa! 😁👍🏻