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Re: [Mgs] Brake lights kaput ....again

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Brake lights kaput ....again
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:32:34 -0800
I would lay money on it being the same part number, in that case...



on 1/21/08 6:15 PM, Stephen West-fisher at steve@coastaldatasystems.com
wrote:

> Early Series Land-Rovers also used the same concept, probably until about
> '67. I don't know if the switch is the same but you may want to check with
> Rovers North or British Pacific.
> 
> --
> Stephen West-Fisher
> Coastal Data Systems
> 727.599.4271
> http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgs-bounces+steve=coastaldatasystems.com@autox.team.net
> [mailto:mgs-bounces+steve=coastaldatasystems.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Max Heim
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:10 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Brake lights kaput ....again
> 
> Well, I took the path of least resistance and just bought the replacement
> switch. I tucked in some paper towels around it, and leaned a 24" length of
> 4x6 on the pedal to provide slight positive pressure. Hardly lost any fluid,
> doesn't seem to have introduced any air.
> 
> Addressing some of the other comments, I have not installed halogen bulbs,
> and I have always used Castrol LMA brake fluid, exclusively. So I am pretty
> much convinced the switches just have poor life expectancy.
> _______________________________________________


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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