Salute the General, again (brake light switch)

[bmcgarvey at gmail.com (Brian McGarvey)]

Just so you all konw..
Swapping in a late model pedal cluster should be an option, has brake
light and cruise control switch bracketry..


On 7/24/05, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Yep, courtesy of my brother's creative welding, and some mysterious 80's
> vintage GM product, my MkI now has a brake light switch. This is the
> replace the "had a little fire" factory deal on the master cylinder. It's
> on a bracket that bolts on to the stock cluster, and is awaiting my skills?
> in  wiring to make it fully functional.
> 
> The advantage of the GM switch over the VW one I'd extracted from the
> Passat is that the GM variant can be threaded up or down to adjust it, (the
> Passat one only has 3mm of movement to play with, this thing can move oer
> an inch), it has two sets of hookups for the lights (only one is useful in
> my situation) and it should be readily available if a replacement is
> needed. Needless to say, I'm happy it's in there. Part of the GM bracket
> was also used.
> Thanks to Dan Bubb for the pictures of Kirsten's switch/bracket, mine's not
> quite the same, but the pictures were useful.
> 
> Who knows what other makes will end up in there by the time I'm done. The
> beauty of course, is that it doesn't look out of place. And if there's a
> fire, it'll be under my feet where I'll see it this time.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
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