[T3] brake light switch

[Jim Adney]

On 31 May 2014 at 19:17, Dennis Stiefel wrote:

> I will probably just get a pair at my FLAPS for now but it there is an issue
> replacements I may study to see it I can see how to fit a switch from a
> modern vehicle on the peddle for future use. That may be tricky since the
> brake pedals in a modern car hangs from the dash instead of coming up from
> the floor like our cars and other vintage cars but I think it doable. 

Bob Hoover has already done this, but I'm not convinced that it's a 
good solution. IIRC, he was tenative about it, too. I suspect that a 
good solution could be done with a relay, so that the switches 
themselves never saw the lamp current. The problem that I've seen 
with dead switches is that there are plastic parts in there that 
overheat and melt. The OG switches were a wonder of little metal 
parts: springs, snap rings, and silvered contacts. I doubt if they 
are still made to that level of quality, but I'd love to be wrong 
about that. And I'm not willing to cut apart an expensive switch just 
to find out.

I should have bought a pair of them, just to test them.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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