I bought a generic single pole single throw toggle switch at Ace Hardware for
about $3.50 (in i992). It is indistinguishable from the OEM switch it
replaced.
Bill Lawrence
> From: scvc70@epix.net
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:01:29 -0500
> Subject: [Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1
>
> I've searched the list archives, and couldn't find anything addressing my
> current situation.
>
> I've begun sorting out the boxful of electrical bits removed from my BN1,
and
> apparently one/more DPOs dealt with electrical problems by--among other
> things--replacing the original O/D dash switch with a generic U.S.-made
> single-pole type, as well as installing what appears to be a BJ8 throttle
> switch (it looks exactly like the picture of that item in the Moss
catalog).
>
> Questions:
> 1) why is the BN1 dash switch (in the Moss cat.) 10 times as expensive as
the
> later one? And, since I have no intention of spending that much money for
any
> switch, would an ordinary single-pole switch work here?
> 2) can the BJ8 throttle switch be used on the 3-speed gearboxbox's O/D?
If
> so, how is that done? When we dismantled the car, it was hooked to the
> throttle linkage--but I have no idea whether the set-up ever worked, as I
> never spoke to its last owner and don't know where he lives (he'd left the
car
> in his father's garage in 1976 when he moved away; father died in 1996, and
> the executors told me son said to get rid of the car as he was no longer
> interested in it--thus I am now the keeper of "Cinderella," the garage-sale
> Healey....)
>
> Apparently the gearbox itself wasn't disturbed, as it and the engine were
> uniformly coated with a half-inch of black, greasy dirt. (I haven't yet
> looked the gearbox itself over.)
>
> As always, thanks in advance!
>
> Sarah Carr
> BN1 in PA
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