Does anybody know where I can buy a switch like the VS headlight switch? $50 seems a little steep for a Chinese switch... thanks.
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The headlight switch from VS is only $35.00.
I just saved you $15.00. 
http://www.vintagespeedsters.com/parts/misc.php
But can you get one that doesn't go from so dim you can't see the dash lights to retina searing bright?
Where did you get "Bright" instrument lights??? I'm on my third car and they have all been somewhat "dim" at their best... Just say'n.
I am a dork. I saw the ignition switch. Thanks.
Originally Posted by Gremlinx:
I am a dork. I saw the ignition switch. Thanks.
Good thing you saw that or your next post would be, "Why does my engine start when I turn on the lights?".
Originally Posted by Robert McEwen:
Originally Posted by Gremlinx:
I am a dork. I saw the ignition switch. Thanks.
Good thing you saw that or your next post would be, "Why does my engine start when I turn on the lights?".
That's how mine starts. Is that not period correct?
It's only "period correct" if it starts when the headlights are on AND you hit the "Hi-Beam" button on the floor. In that regard, it should start in exactly the same fashion as a Ford Model A (of the same design vintage, too.........)
Funny! Reminds me of my experience replacing a turn signal lever and switch back in 2010. Here's the story.
It cost me $50 and I'd really be pissed if it wasn't so damn funny.
I'm nearly finished fixing up the silver Speedster I recently purchased in Morro Bay. I needed to replace the turn signal lever and switch unit, because it would not cancel automatically following a turn. I bought an Empi replacement unit for $50 and tore into it. I soon realized that the wire colors were not exactly the same as on the orignal unit and that's a big problem for me because I'm color blind. So, I enlisted the help of my wife and we matched up the colors as close as we could and connected it up.
Time to test it, so left turn first and the left turn signal blinks. Right turn next and ....... THE HORN BLOWS!!!! I couldn't stop laughing and I still can't when ever I tell someone about it. Like my neighbor said, the only thing funnier would have been if the windshield wipers would have come on when I dimmed the high beams.
Cory replied and said. "It's a good thing you're not on the bomb squad!"
All of this brings to mind the time I switched out my crappy Chinese tach, w/ a rebuild using VDO innards. W/ my car, as w/ most, I'll bet, the wiring is sorta ad-hoc, which is to say, no color codes, just red and white wires all over the place. So, I made a little mistake when I replaced the tach, and noticed two things thast seemed a bit odd: the inst panel lights had a couple not working. And I ran my battery down a few times, and could never figure out why. Also I noted that the "generator" light did not work, except it did glow a little at night w/ the lights on. I'm not sure how I figured it out, and likely I did NOT figure it out, but rather someone here did. And now it is obvious to me what I did: got the generator (red) light wire (a white one) switched w/ one of the inst panel bulbs (also white), so I was only charging my battery (energizing the field in the alternator) when the lights were turned on. Switched those two around, and back in business as designed.