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aerohound
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Joined: May 30, 2021
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Location: Virginia (VA)
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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 1:25 pm Post subject: Turn signal lever |
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| I have a 1967 Squareback and a mechanic friend managed to break off the turn signal lever. It has a dimmer switch built in and two wires. Got one from Spain which did not fit. The contacts and cancelling mechanism were wrong. Any suggestions? |
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sjbartnik
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Joined: September 01, 2011
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Location: Brooklyn
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: Turn signal lever |
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There are two different manufacturers of the turn signal switch. SWF is one of them and I forget what the other is, but they don’t interchange. So look at your old one and find the manufacturer stamp then buy a replacement of the same manufacturer, and prepare to pay up (or rather to make your clumsy friend pay up).
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1965 Volkswagen 1500 Variant S
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Erik G
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Location: Tejas!
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Turn signal lever |
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Yep. Just be glad it's not a type34
There are used ones in the classifieds. Good luck! |
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Randall
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Joined: October 03, 2004
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Location: Orange County, Alta California, El Norte
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: Turn signal lever |
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| aerohound wrote: |
| I have a 1967 Squareback and a mechanic friend managed to break off the turn signal lever.... Any suggestions? |
I sympathize with you. The same situation happened to me over 30 years ago on my Type 3. Like in your case, a mechanic reached in through the open window while I was sitting in the driver's seat and turned my turn signal on, breaking the lever. He "fixed" it in short order by inserting a metal rod in the cavity of the arm and applying what was probably an epoxy over the lever's broken ends. The epoxy was black like the lever.
I thought about making him pay for a new lever but even as long ago as the early '90s a new lever, or even one from a junkyard, would have been hard to come by and probably not worth the effort. So being the nice guy I am I let it slide. It's not like my VW has ever looked like a show car.
I remember being at an auto show for the new 1969 models and sitting behind the wheel of an American car that had a broken turn signal lever. Stuff like that happens but we rarely hear about it.  |
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ataraxia
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Joined: March 19, 2010
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Location: Illinois
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Turn signal lever |
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| sjbartnik wrote: |
| There are two different manufacturers of the turn signal switch. SWF is one of them and I forget what the other is, but they don’t interchange. So look at your old one and find the manufacturer stamp then buy a replacement of the same manufacturer, and prepare to pay up (or rather to make your clumsy friend pay up). |
SWF and Koln (aka "circle K")
The SWF is more common and parts are easier to find - they're MFG specific because the designs are just different enough to not interchange. |
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