[T3] DOT 5 and brake light switches

Keith Park topnotch at nycap.rr.com
Tue Nov 3 16:20:29 PST 2015


I went thru my entire stash of switches on the Notch 15 years ago when I
started using it with DOT5, toasted them all.  The 71 however, is still
running its OEM switches and DOT4 with no problems.  The Crate initially
worked with its OEM switch, and the tandem master effectively had a spare on
it so I left it but it now sounds like its having the same fate as the Notch
did 15 years ago,  The crate however is 6V, so twice the current.

Keith


Topnotch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.com
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
71 Squareback  "Hothe"
65 Notchback  "El Baja Rojo"
93 RX7  "Redstur"
87 Golf  "Winterat"
 
-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
On Behalf Of Sean Bartnik
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 6:34 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] DOT 5 and brake light switches

Jim,
I will absolutely ship you the failed one as soon as I swap it out.  Thanks!

I'm curious myself.

BTW Keith upgraded the 'Crate's brakes to dual circuit but the wiring has
not been upgraded so it's effectively a 1-switch system even though there
are two switches screwed into the master cylinder.

-Sean


> On Nov 3, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
> On 3 Nov 2015 at 15:08, Sean Bartnik wrote:
> 
>> So you guys who are running DOT 5, what brand brake light switches are
you having good luck with?
> 
> 
> I'd love to be able to say that the FTE ones have solved the problem, 
> but that doesn't appear to be the case. Let me take a look inside 
> your failed one. I really don't want to destroy a perfectly good one 
> to that end.
> 
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