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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Same experience on my Series 200 Griffith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I checked the hydraulic switch immediately after installing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>It was functional<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A week later it failed so I adapted a bracket from some old Toyota that was available and installed a GM mechanical brake plunger switch. I hid it all inside my pedal box. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>It works reliably.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Don Antilla <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Southbury, CT<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>203-264-8301 Home<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>203-592-8427 Cell<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Jay Laifman via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br><b>Reply-To: </b>Jay Laifman <jay.laifman@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, July 10, 2020 at 12:01 PM<br><b>To: </b>Tiger's Den <tigers@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject: </b>[Tigers] Brake Light Switch<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I went through way too many of the switches. I've ALWAYS used LMA. Never varied. I even tried the most expensive, named brand switches. They all ultimately failed. So I made my own bracket and bought a mechanical switch at Pep Boys. Works like a charm, every time, all the time. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will say though that rather than cut into the wires, I just extended the stock wires from the stock switch back into the car at my mechanical switch.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ tigers@autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/fast427@sbcglobal.net <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>