Dave,
The rubber pad is like a rubber foot that is snapped into a hole on the
pedal arm. The stop light switch presses against it when the pedal is
released. With age the center of the rubber pushes down/out and the switch
actuator extends into the hole. This allows the brake switch to stay on
all the time. By bending the bracket the switch will press against the
metal that would support the rubber if it were there.
Peace,
Pat
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, David R. Conrad wrote:
> Marc:
>
> I'm sorry to say that I cannot yet contribute, after receiving very helpful
>advice
> from the list. I've had mainland refugees (snowbirds) visiting since that
>great
> response. They've just departed. (Also, I was pleading an "arthritis excuse"
> about servicing that switch when I finally saw where it was located ;-).
>
> I have to say that I'm very interested in what you have found! I also have
>to say
> that I would have been *extremely* disappointed to find that switch "good"
>after
> going through the difficulty of removing it.
>
> I had become pretty confident that it was the switch, particularly when Gary
>Boone
> said he had experienced two which had failed in 15 years, when mine had
>already
> gone for 35.
>
> Your experience points in the direction of another reply which I can't find (I
> thought I had saved them all). As I recall, that one talked about a bracket,
>with
> a rubber pad which contacts the switch plunger to actuate it. As I recall,
>wear of
> this pad can allow the plunger to (pass through it?, and) not actuate the
>switch.
> That reply said that "moving that bracket might give me another 30 years", or
>words
> to that effect.
>
> I'll be interested in your further findings.
>
> Dave
> '68 1600
> Kaiua-Kona
>
>
> snyler wrote:
>
> > At 4:35 PM -0500 2/2/03, RWM wrote:
> > >Mark is correct; switch is bracket-mounted near top of arm's pivot point.
> > >I had that same indication last year; switch failed in the open position.
> > >
> > >- Bob Mann, '69 2000 Solex
> > >
> > >Mark Sedlack wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On a 68, the switch should be mounted where its activated by movement
>of the
> > >> pedal arm - a normally open switch that closes ( turns on) when the
>pedal
> > >> arm moves away from it. Earlier, single-circuit master cylinder cars
>had a
> > >> hydraulically operated switch screwed into a "T" on the front,
>passenger,
> > >> engine side of the firewall.
> > >> Mark Sedlack
> >
> > I was told today that my brake lights were not working on my '70
> > 1600. I remembered this thread and removed the switch expecting it
> > to be bad....it's not, and that 's not good as far as I can tell.
> > Flashers and signals work fine, just no brake lights. Where do I
> > look next?
> >
> > -Marc T.
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