Re: [T3] 'Pickup' on Speedo Cable

[Simon Glen <simonglen@bigpond.com>]

Way back in 1968 I bought a brand new VW Type3 1600
panel van in Zambia.  During September of 1969
I travelled south through Rhodesia and Botswana
to South Africa.  At Johannesburg I called in to the VW
agents there, Lindsay Saker Motors, to have a reversing
light fitted.  When I came to collect the car in the afternoon
they apologised and said thye had run out of reversing
light switches for the gearbox and had fitted this other
switch at the back of the speedometer.

When I came to use it, I found it most annoying because
it would not switch the reversing lights on until the speedo
cable in reverse direction had taken up the slack and one had
travelled about a metre (a yard) backwards by which time
one could have hit a tree, another car or even a child.  Later,
I fitted the proper gearbox reversing light switch which makes
the reversing lights come on immediately one selects reverse
gear.

This is off topic:
Nevertheless, despite this, I continued my holiday journey
southwards to Cape Town and I can clearly remember
stopping for lunch at a little town called Piketburg
while travelling through the magnificent display of
wild flowers all over that part of the country at that
time of year.  If I am not mistaken, I believe this town
is where Ian Ruinaard lives??

Simon Glen
Toowoomba,  Australia


Daniel Baum wrote:

> It sounds like an aftermarket reverse light switch, but a '68 automatic
> shouldn't really need one.
>
> Daniel Baum
>
> > Hi,
> > I hope someone can enlighten me -I had the Speedo out on my 68 Automatic
> > fastback & there is an unusual black 'pickup' mounted on the back of the
> > Speedo (The speedo cable goes into this pickup which is screwed on the
> back
> > of the Speedo) I has 2 wires coming from it which lead into the wiring
> > harness. I cannot find it on my wiring diagrams.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me what this is & what it does ?
> >
> > Ian Ruinaard
> > iruinaard@ppc.co.za

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