Pelican Parts Forums - To Fuse or not to Fuse

1979 924 NU

I have been out of the Porsche restoration mode for about fiveteen years. Why do you say? Because I have been working on raising tricycle motors and perhaps dabbling with a case of tourrets syndrome!

My newly acquired car has the ceramic fuses common on early 924NU, 914 and even the volkswagen beetles. However, on Fuse 7 and 8 the lower part of the fuse holder is missing. What is left is a little pin that is soldered to the fuse block. Now the previous owner did a good job. They took some 18 gauge wire, stripped both ends and jammed in there. I know a few of you are shaking your heads but I do mean they did a good job, because my assumption is there were likely a Boy Scout. All Scouts know that before you make a fire you should make a "fire circle" and I think that might be why there are a lot of interior parts, center console, arm rest, dash cover, sun visor etc that were removed and put in a box in the truck!!!

The question is, to fix it long term, do I buy another fuse block panel or is there a repair kit. I swear in the mid 80's one could goto the local auto store and buy a panel repair kit that had a few of those. But hey, I am mid-life aged now, so I may be up in the night.

On a fuse panel where the fuse is inserted, the top part is often more "springy" then the bottom. I am missing the bottom half of fuses 7,8 (ya I am talking brake lights, interior lights, DASH lights)

.......Yesterday I had a police officer follow me and decide to NOT cite me.....LOL "Well actually officer I don't know how slow I was going because using my cell phone for dash lights and was dropped while I was shoving this transmission into reverse from 1 gear.....OK it has been a while since I have driven one!!"

Any suggestions will be appreciated, especially helpful if they relate to the repair