Back in 2010 or 2011, my
brake light switch stopped working so I took it apart,
cleaned and "repaired" it. A short term solution that's
documented at the link in the left column called Switch
Repair. The repair
lasted for a while but would intermittently stop working
so I decided to buy the $25 NAPA Echlin SL-310 switch
from a mid 80's Honda..................turns out these
are getting hard to find and none of the local NAPA
stores cad them in stock but would special order one for
me.
Then one of
The
6-Pack Forum members (Poolboy) posted a couple of
other switches listed on eBay that looked as if they
should work...... so I bought one of each......for about
as much as the Honda switch.
The first thing you'll
notice is the all metal housing and the heavy duty
"plastic" insulator around the terminals. The next thing
you'll notice is they weight more: 1/4 oz for stock, 3/4
oz for the BMW and 1-1/4 oz for the Airtex. The last
thing I noticed was that the two new ones came with two
nuts which meant you had infinite adjustments for
setting the distance to the brake pedal arm...........
no more bending that stupid tab and hoping everything
worked. I wonder if at some point the stock switch had
two nuts also?
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