[Spridgets] Warning!! LBC Content!! Delete Now!!

oldsaabguy oldsaabguy at comcast.net
Tue Jun 26 11:01:26 MDT 2007


.. sounds simple, instead of having a switch that connects a hot wire  
all that you have to do is completely reverse the wiring to your  
brakes so that it now connects a ground wire..

heh..

Lester

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Jim Johnson wrote:

> And now for something completely different....
>
> I have a wiring anomaly on the 1968 Midget.  In doing out the brakes,
> I am replacing the brake failure switch. The old one got hammered
> somewhere along the line by somebody years ago. When the new switch
> came in, it has two pins on it. The old one has only one pin and there
> is only one wire in the harness that goes to the switch. I poured over
> all the wiring diagrams in the book but couldn't find one with a
> single wire. They all have two!  Then I looked at my nice Prospero's
> diagram and it shows just one!
>
> So.....   will the two pin switch (nobody seems to have a single pin
> switch) work?  Do I have to short one of the pins to ground?  Oh!  For
> reference sake, my compensator valve is the "H" shaped one, not the
> "X" shaped one...
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled flood of drivel  
> emails....
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim - 68 Midget in Dodge City
> -- 
> The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
> fill the world with fools.
> -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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