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posted on June 17th, 2011 at 10:07 PM
Indicator switch - which one?
This is a doozy. Thought it was going to be easy working out which indicator switch assembly was right for the fasty (Australian assembled, 3/71,
newer dashpad, flow-through dash vents, older instrumentation + steering wheel). Ripped it out, found part number was 411 953 515A. Obviously somebody
raided the Type 4 bin for this one. Annoyingly, the switch wasn't wired for side-marker parking lights, either, even though all the wiring + bulbs
are in the car. Can anybody tell me what the right part number is? Lack of parkers is pissing me off big-time.
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posted on June 18th, 2011 at 10:33 AM
check out these links, you may be able to work the number out yourself.
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posted on June 28th, 2011 at 07:34 PM
cheers for that. Ended up going for the nearest thing available - a '71 Superbug switch, which comes with loose, bare wire ends - and saved my
plastic loom rack off the one I had, because I didn't want to cut off the nine-pin plug - wanted to keep the stock look. This involved Dremelling
bits of plastic off the new switch at the bottom, drilling new holes at the bottom to take the retaining pins of the old loom rack and individually
snipping off and resoldering the old pins to the new wires. If anybody ends up having to do the same, and they want to keep side parking light
functionality, note that the '71SB switch has the parking light contacts jump-wired together, which means only eight wires out instead of nine and is
no good for Type 3s. I snipped the little jumper wire off the bottom terminal, wrapped it back around the top of the switch and soldered a new, longer
length of wire to it to take it back down the loom rack to the pins and give me individual left and right side parking lights. Apart from the hand
soldering at the pins, I'd challenge anyone to pick it from the original.
Also ended up chucking in a new brake master cylinder and a new fuel tank connector hose I noticed leaking while breaking my fingers on the brake job.
There wouldn't have been too many dirtier, angrier blokes than me going around on Monday night. VWs are about fun, right? Right??
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posted on June 30th, 2011 at 06:30 PM
gets better in time as u have more skills and knowledge of sources and the beast; ANTEATER
work on emm to enjoy and invest
am partin a 70sqre if u need stuff
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want any vw bits old but like me, Made in Germany!!!
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posted on July 3rd, 2011 at 09:08 PM
Mate, I've been doing stuff to air-cooled VWs from the age of 15, but what changes is your recovery time. I'm 42 now and am still feeling the
after-effects from that brake job. I think I did a shoulder working in closely confined spaces on my back in the rain with crap falling in my face
every ten seconds. There's stuff I really like doing, like electrics and engine rebuilds where the engine is out. And there are filthy jobs I bloody
hate, like brakes and CV joints. Baby just needs to behave herself for a few weeks and the love will return as it always has. Bitching over....
