[Healeys] Fw: brake switch

[Dick Matson]

You got a luggage rack (on the back of your car) ?

Dick Matson / Bj8



----- Original Message -----
From: Jaap Aeckerlin<mailto:j.aeckerlin at gmail.com>
To: Al Fuller<mailto:al at bighealey.org> ; Healey
forum<mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] brake switch


Hi all,
would suction cups be a solution? I bought a third brake light in the USA,
only to find out it was a rigid construction which could not be bent to
follow the shape of the body. I ended up fitting the brake light in my daily
car, a Citrokn Break, but I still keep thinking about a possibility to mount
a third brake light onto my BJ8 without drilling holes.
Has anyone on this list ever used soft pvc suction cups to hold something
onto a driving car?
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432

2010/4/12 Al Fuller <al at bighealey.org<mailto:al at bighealey.org>>

> Sara:
>
> You might try using a set screw in the underside of bracket, which would
> pinch upwards into the underside of the boot lid, thus securing the bracket
> and light assembly.
>
> Many deck lid antenna brackets use this system, and the only usual downside
> is you will/might bite through the paint under the deck lid at the site of
> the set screws.  See this example for an idea of how they work:
> http://tinyurl.com/y3g7lzd<http://tinyurl.com/y3g7lzd>
>
>
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ay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310213036872>
>
>
> Al Fuller
> al at bighealey.org<mailto:al at bighealey.org>
> '62 BT-7
> '65 BJ-8
> '85 Rx-7
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> healeys-bounces at autox.team.net<mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>]
> On Behalf Of Carr&Edwards
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:25 PM
> To: healeys at autox.team.net<mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] brake switch
>
> Last spring I finally found a nice LED brake light for my MG-TD at
> www.jandlenterprise.com<http://www.jandlenterprise.com/> -- their
BrakeLighter is 12"x<1", exterior mount
> [website doesn't say so, but it is--all molded plastic].  We made two
> aluminum brackets, similar to badge-bar clips, to fasten it to the luggage
> rack, and wired it to plug into the trailer-light plug.  [If we're towing
> the trailer, we really don't need the extra brake light--trailer lights are
> huge.]  I'll be buying one for the Healey at Rhinebeck next month; now to
> figure out a way to mount this one without drilling holes in the deck
> lid....
>
> Sarah Carr
> BN1 in PA