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Re: [T3] Turn Signal Switch Cancelling Tab Return Spring


On 14 Apr 99, at 8:14, David L. Timmins wrote:

>From the minutia corner....Does anyone have experience with 1970 turn signal
> switches, specifically the nylon cancelling tab?  The picture in Bentley (the
> text is too brief) shows a tension spring that sits inboard, toward the steering
> shaft, that evidently returns the tab to a retract position when the cancelling
> ring on the steering wheel trips the tab which in turn returns the turn signal
> lever to the neutral position.  Mine has no spring, and consequently, no
> protrusion of the tab when the tàÆ,Eal lever is moved.   A compression
> spring  on the outboard side of the tab (located inside the mechanism, like near
> the detent ball)  would make more sense to me.  Am I missing something here
> (besides the spring)?

That serpentine spring was there once upon a time. You can see the 2 
pieces that slide up and down that it attached to. It is likely, 
however that at least one of the nylon protrusions that the spring 
attached to has broken off. If you can find another TS switch from 
any VW (or maybe BMW, MB, or Audi?) then you can carefully slip out 
the broken plastic bits and slip in the donor bits and spring. You 
MUST remove the switch to do this.

Jim 
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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