Help with 2002 R8 Neck Pickup Wiring Issue

[ammalato]

Hi All. I picked up this gorgeous 2002 R8 recently. Everything about it is great, with the exception of an issue I'm experiencing with the neck pickup. The seller converted it to 50's wiring and replaced the caps with russian PIO's. I noticed that the neck pickup sounded weak, and a bit bassy so I decided to measure the resistance of the pickup to see if something was off. Initially I measured at the output jack with the pots all on 10. The bridge pickup measured 8k, but the neck pickup measured something crazy like 178k. I went on to measure the resistance between the INPUT lug (lug 1 on the volume pots and the respective case back ground of each pot). Again for the the bridge I got 8k but this time for the neck I got about 7.5k which seems right. From there I moved onto measure the resistance between the OUTPUT lug (lug 2 on the volume pots and the respective case back ground of each pot). Bridge still showed 8k but this time the neck showed that crazy high 178k reading. Since the measurements on the neck volume pot was 7.5k on lug 1, but 178k on lug 2 I figured that the issue wasn't the pickup, but the wiring. I disconnected a leg of the blue neck cap to see if that had any affect, and it didn't. So now I'm wondering if it's a bad Volume pot or something else with the wiring...The volume pot itself seems to work fine audibly...The sweep sounds properly tapered and there's no dead spots or anything. Before I replace all pot(s) and/or just rewire the whole thing with some CTS / Bumblebees, I'd love any thoughts. I'm including a picture of the control cavity to see if anyone sees anything I may be overlooking

 

[poor man's burst]

Disconnect the bridge pickup from its pot and solder the neck pickup instead. If it works properly , replace the neck pickup volume pot.