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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Keith Park wrote: >I've posted a few times before on this, >the 12V ignition switches had a hard time with the 35A solenoid current >and would fail but the 6V ones never lasted long at all. Are you saying that the switch itself may have shorted? I forgot to mention that my ignition switch is from a 1967 beetle, and is mounted on the dash, not in the column. The reason for this is that the original keyswitch had a spring that broke, and that the 1966 squareback switch is made of unobtanium. > You need to >use a high- >current relay to do the work of the starter contacts in it. >If there not too >badly burned you can get away with rebuilding and using the relay but you may >need to start with a new switch. I didn't think I had a starter relay. But now I am starting to wonder. >ANYONE.. working or not DONT use the old ignition switches (62-7) to pass the >solenoid current, they are all but impossible to replace and WILL NOT >last long. Like I said, the switch is from a 12v beetle. Is this bad? -- g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l-l-y---[ email:<fishbowl@conservatory.com> ]---l-i-v-i-n-g d-e-a-d-i-c-a-t-e-d---[ http://www.conservatory.com/ ]-----l-i-g-h-t Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity. -- Robert Firth "One, two, five." -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail