I took the old, dead pressure switch from my '67 B in to my local
NAPA dealer and told him I wanted "a switch like this." He found an
Erstatz Type 1 VW part ("Bug", to you non-Teutonic types) with the same
threads and blade type connectors. Works just fine, looks the same,
costs very little. Does this make my B even more of an
Anglo-American-German-Swedish-Japanese bastard (along with my Porsche
seats, GM HEI distributor, NGK sparkplugs, SAAB "mushroom" PCV valve,
and Volvo SUs)?
Regards,
Jerry Causey
> I have a similar problem with my 66 and now the light don't come on no
> matter how hard I push. I know it's in the switch. I'm going to change
> the Master cylinder cover to a later model one with the switch on the
> cover and just abandant the other. If that's no good I'll go for switch
> under dash, pedal lever activated. I figure if they changed the design
> in later models, there is probably a good reason. There is a difference
> in modifing and improving. Safety Fast, David Deutsch
>
> This is a reply to a post concerning brake light pressure switch which
> was tied into proportioning tee of brake line system on early Bs (pre
> 68). The switch seems to show weakiness by needing increasingly more
> pedal pressure to active(and light brake lamps) and then eventual just
> quits.
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