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well, i'm going to try to do a rebuild on the one i have and i was wondering if anyone can point me to an exploded view of all the little ball bearings and springs. it fell apart as i took it out so i'm not even sure i have all the little, and i mean little parts. also, and this may be easier, can someone tell me which wires should have contact at the different key turn locations? here's the wires i have: thick solid red medium black thick red with black stripe the problem i see is that the small contact/slider plate doesn't have an obvious pivot point. does it have a "virtual pivot point" like them newfangled mountain bikes? no one has an opinion about cutting the thing apart and grafting a new electrical part to my old mechanicals? thanks, dan '67 Squareback "Stanley" ---------------------- Daniel M. Hoopes 801-836-3411 cell 652 South 1050 East Orem, UT 84097 ---------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:19 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] 67 Ignition Switch On 30 Jul 2003 at 23:58, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote: > This switch set up you're using is very fragile (as you found out). I had one > here for a 65 (same parts) that I gave to John J. as I converted mine to the > more commonly found later style. This is actually an easy, good upgrade ( > unfortunately not visually correct or original ) that works very well. Go to > Tom's web site; http://home.att.net/~tomnotch/page4notch.html > for more info on this swap. This gets you away from the hard to find and > expensive parts and gets you into the easily found replacement parts. Another advantage of this conversion is that you get the collapsing steering column if you get your parts from a 68 or later. This is a significant safety feature. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org