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I'm pretty impressed Marla was able to complete this by herself, very few owners would be able to install a harness and make things work correctly.

Great job!

Not cheap, WW has them:

https://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Deta ... 1953227BWW

Make sure the guy working on it confirms what it looks like, probably no returns on electrical items.

I wrote a bunch of articles on this for the COVVC rag and sent several of them to Marla. I'll paste some of the important stuff here:

"I just finished a repair job in my shop, it’s a 50’s VW that someone (several owners previous) replaced the wiring harness in. The car had not been driven in many ...

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Been really busy working on Chevys lately so not much to post here. We did finally get back to Rob's bus and did the center pin bushings and steering box bushings.

FWIW, I've had Pertronix on two cars, they failed, and I switched them back to points. If you use it, carry a spare distributor with you.

Good Luck!

Edit: If you use it, check the advance curve right away. One Pertronix distributor I got started advance at 2500, all in by 3500, total advance 30 ...

Looks great! Is it going to be too nice to take camping when it's done?

Wow, that metal looks really nice, my front floors (both buses) were almost nonexistant. Keep up the good work!

The Northern Lights were AMAZING!

Ground strap was missing completely on the trans so I installed one. Battery hold down was missing so I installed one. I consider this a safety item- if you go in a ditch and your battery shakes loose, it will short out and burn the bus down. I cleaned the grody ground strap on the battery, too, but ...