Re: Where's The Stop Light Switch On My 56 Executive?
Posted by Jim On 2010/9/5 11:36:32
My experience with the use of the two-prong switch in various applications and the use silicon fluid has resulted in a disproportionate number of failed switches. They include original Fomoco switches and SL-134 switches in various brand replacements. I have never had one of these switches leak, just fail to operate electrically.
This is such a problem that friends and I have replaced these on sundry cars while on tour with great regularity (take out old switch thread in new one, just slightly depress brake pedal, tighten as a little fluid oozes out). Most of the folks I chum around with including myself have abandoned conversion to DOT 5 because there seems to be no real advantage if one changes brake fluid as part of PM and just creates this irritating switch issue.
This is such a problem that friends and I have replaced these on sundry cars while on tour with great regularity (take out old switch thread in new one, just slightly depress brake pedal, tighten as a little fluid oozes out). Most of the folks I chum around with including myself have abandoned conversion to DOT 5 because there seems to be no real advantage if one changes brake fluid as part of PM and just creates this irritating switch issue.
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