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47 thoughts on “Short circuit electrical didn t expect this! vintage vw beetle air cooled rear engine! classic!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rob Timmermans says:

    Teflon should be put on the other way around i think

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Love Of Christ says:

    Freaking awesome video dude I loved it I learned so much from it, I know a lot of you technicians have never seen these vehicles or worked on them but I have a little bit and it’s nice to see some old cars in this new videos God bless you my brothers and sisters take care and stay safe✝️✝️✝️

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Love Of Christ says:

    Hello Ray I was having a hard time locating a short circuit one time until I saw a video here on YouTube I don’t know what they call this apparatus but it’s pretty cheap at Harbor freight or you can buy the name brand which was such a bag almost $300 I think or $200 but the one in hungry freight does the same thing for $27 so that’s what I purchase. When you hook it up it sounds just like that free on detector it goes beep beep and when you locate the short circuit it’s a steady sound it will reduce your time in locating any short-circuit on the vehicle trust me. This is the same device that telephone or cable people use to locate where the cables are so they can go ahead and connect them in the proper locations if you give me a PO Box and I can find my old one you can have it so that way you know if you want to buy a new one or this one is still new I only used it one time .
    So let me know if you want this one I’ll box it up it has some instructions in it and you can use it I will try to look for it right now and give you the name of that unit please let me know if you want me to ship this one to you I just need to get a PO Box, also need to tell you I know you got a area where you can donate to your channel well I’m gonna be honest I’m very poor I’ve been disabled for almost 5 years I lost my business to the government because a long long story but if you want me to I can do it in detail in a letter and I’ll mail it to you I don’t want the world to know my business you know what I mean but in the long run it paid off some weird way you know why Jesus Christ was watching over me and my family and I tell you without him in my life I would be nothing. So Ray with this in mind God bless you sir take care of yourself and your family and your friends stay safe now oh don’t forget the PO Box number if you want me to send you this electrical short circuit finder lol I don’t know what the name of it is but when you see it it’s kind of complicated but it’s easy to find electrical short fast bye for now✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤠🤠🤠

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Fallis says:

    Didn't hear you say if you bled the brakes.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VB says:

    If people are always finding your misnaming of things, then I'll join the mix, that tape is PTFE tape which stands for Polytetrafluoroethylene and whilst it does contain Teflon, it is actually called PTFE Tape accidentally discovered in 1938 in France by DuPont and incorrectly renamed by Americans to Teflon Tape.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Todd Bacon says:

    I had a '68 as a first car that I rebuilt in shop during my first year in high school. Was fun to see the work here, rats-nest of wires, leaking cork gaskets & all. I appreciate the videos – never know what Ray will be working on and the variety from this side is nice. Thanks, Ray!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andy Mann says:

    You could’ve glued the box together

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 3 amigos says:

    You don't have to bleed the brakes after opening the system?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Deborah George says:

    My father had one of these. Mongrels to start in the morning. He parked on the top of our short hill of a driveway and did a clutch start. His was navy blue. We were a family of 5. (3 girls under 6 ) and we picked up a family of 4 big people for church on sundays. The girls were in the parcel shelf behind the backseat.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sam Jackson says:

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  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kellen says:

    Even with all the rust and holes on the bottom that thing is in better condition then many vehicles not even 10 years old lmao

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kelly Smith says:

    "Those other switches that are already on that brake master cylinder appear to be leaking"……lol. On my VW Bus it's not if it leaks but when it leaks!!!!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Francis McKnight says:

    When removing and installing the airbox, rather than levering the top, pull it from the bottom

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars imhoooks says:

    I love the aftermarket vintage looking radio with MP3

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steven Phillips says:

    Nice to see you work on an old bug.. you probably realize that the brake switches were not even anything to do with that blown fuse, The parts are available for bugs a lots of sources.. but some are really prices

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DA says:

    Favorite things to work on, Bugs.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars J IJzer says:

    Those parts are stil availabe but you have to order it

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joe Seabert says:

    Wow, I watched this three months ago and forgot about it.

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joe Seabert says:

    Wipers powered by the air in the spare tire

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kuntal Ghosh says:

    That wiring seem to be a fire hazard. Someone need to redo that wiring to factory standard with modern fuse box and proper wire covers and sleeves.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Garrison says:

    I always knew the torque value as German torque Gued-n-tite

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Troy Ball says:

    You didn't bleed the brakes ?

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ed Chenal says:

    Good trouble shooting. A VW air cooled bug owner.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars FoamCrusher says:

    If you think that 1972 was “simple”, my 1961 40 Hp version was about as basic as a lawn mower, but an excellent car to learn on. The things I learned were of great value as my taste in cars turned to FIAT 🕷🕷🕷and later Toyota’s. Now when I open a hood I can’t even see the engine, or work on it without a computer. 😞

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Da Os says:

    yep, that car has been a lot messed with. wiring rats nest is a classic. also the oil leaks could do with sorting out.

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Leigh C says:

    car's nickname is Rusty ?

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Schofield says:

    I saw microchips it must be the emissions cheat circuit?

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Slugbunny says:

    Such clean hands, must have been the day's first job! Or maybe reverence for the ol' Beetle. Ours was an orange '62, I think.

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Heartsill says:

    Isn't it nice to work on a real car of quality for once. Simple, not all plastic, and easy to work on.

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Stark says:

    Been there done that! But back when I did it there was a place to get them new. There is a place in Germany that I think still makes replacement parts because these things are popular.
    I uses to work in a place that specialized in Corvairs and we got Bug owners coming in all the time to. I absolutely hated working on the brakes as it never failed you would break the wheel cylinder bleed screws off and you always had to replace or rebuild the wheel cylinders when you changed brake pads.

  31. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Thomas Bailey says:

    ROF- Now you know why all of us oldtimers always maintained our own vehicles. All you needed was wrenches and sockets! No stupid electronics you have to pay hundreds for like todays cars. Hell I didnt even have seat belts in most of my cars. LOL

  32. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars High Brow says:

    Tighten til you hear the crack, THEN back off 1/2 turn!

  33. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars High Brow says:

    Hose is direct air heater. Lose like that makes for COLD winter driving and foggy interior windows.

  34. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David says:

    Thank you for the Van Halen concert.

  35. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rafiq ahmed says:

    Now you've learned something. 😊

  36. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ian Muir says:

    When I was young my family drove a Beetle from Edinburgh to Spain another couple with a new car came along the beetle got there no problem the other car broke down a few times

  37. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jeffrey snyder says:

    A Classic…Don't forget to plug into the computer

  38. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jonathan Ballard says:

    I'm developing seizures from watching your one handed wrenching ….

  39. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Todd Andrews says:

    Old school simple back when you didn't plug a mini computer in for diagnosis. Love it! 👍

  40. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Allen Webster says:

    As per usual another great video, you can do anything theres just nothing you cant repair, I wish I had the wisdom you have although I have learned a few things from you,keep up the great work and stay safe ,

  41. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Raymond Rothstein says:

    I had a 72 super just like it, then a Karman ghia afterwards, simple fun cars.

  42. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Hatfull says:

    Kool vid mate my freind is a vw resto guy in the uk and i remember great times when we where younger .

  43. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars matt fisher says:

    This was my first car, literally rebuilt the whole thing, engine, trans and all, over heated the thing and blew the engine and was still able to rebuild it twice, those things last forever

  44. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gary deane says:

    Thank God I never bought a beetle! Did you take that leaf out? An awfull paint job coupled with an awful shed how appropriate, modern VW's a tad better me thinks…

  45. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daemon Can says:

    Wire nuts have no place inside an automobile.

  46. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rbdemp says:

    Hazard switch is about 16 bucks and available from a number of online providers, probably none local

  47. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Witgang Graybeast. says:

    Had a 71 vw super beetle, everytime i had to take it to a mechanic they had to have me put it in reverse for them. Once they just asked me to take it into the bay.

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