At 08:53 AM 2/15/05 -0800, dave houser wrote:
>The latest issue of MGA! from NAMGAR had a tech article about a little
>known fact about the turn signal switch. The writer of the article says
>that if you turn the arm almost to horizontal the switch will stay on
>until you switch it off, making it a manual switch instead of timed. Has
>anyone else come across this or tried it? Let me know before I break off
>my arm on the switch.
Not mine. I cannot move the lever past about 60 degrees in either
direction, no matter how hard I push. I have seen several with broken
internal parts, in which case they usually do not work at all.
If anyone has one that parks in the on position at 90 degrees, I 'd love to
take it apart to see what's different about it. I suspect the mounting
holes and the pivit pin would be badly worn, to allow the cross bar to move
abnormally close to the front plate. Mine has 343,000 miles of use on it,
and it is not worn that much. Although I did have it apart several years
ago for maintenance, so maybe I have replaced the pifot pin (just a simple
cotter pin).
It normally stops at 45 to 60 degrees when the big plunger hits the back of
the bore. I would think that forcing it farther would risk breaking
something, especially if the cross bar pivot parts are badly worn. See a
complete photo series of the internal parts here:
http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/ts101.htm
Banrey Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com
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