It is located on the transmission case underneath the car. There should be a wire with an in-line fuse on the right side of the engine. If you are having a problem with the reverse lights not coming on, check this fuse first. It is more likely to go bad before the switch does. On the switch itself, there will be a couple of wires coming off of it. One for power going to the switch, the other leads to the backup lights. There SHOULD BE a rubber boot that covers these wire connections, but it may have come off over time. This switch just simply unscrews from the transmission case. Hope this helps.
AnswerIt should be on the left side of trans where the shift levers are. It is called the neutral safety switch and the backup light switch is built into the same switch. So, this switch allows your car to only be started in park or neutral and when in reverse, it will turn on the backup lights. There are four wires on the neutral safety switch with a square connector on the end.
The wire connects to the switch located on the nosecone (towards the very front) of the transaxle.
left side of speedo
A 1968 Beetle is air cooled there is no water pump fitted.
back side of the brake pedal
Because there's a short somewhere in the system, and it's probably on the master cylinder. VW, for some reason, used a brake light switch that's activated by brake fluid pressure. The switch is under the car where it gets wet.
yes it can
$1995.
around 2700 dollars I bought a 1968 Beetle in fall 1967 and remember pretty distinctly that the sticker price was $1,800.
Yes, the hoods from 1968 to 1979 will all interchange.
It's tight, but it just pulls off... With some effort.
1968