AZDart progress

[Bob <64ragtop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The AZDart's battery was being dragged down by the brake light switch 
being stuck on.  When I found the switch, under the dash and behind the 
steering column its mounting bracket was bent so the switch couldn't 
operate.  I straightened the bracket then found it didn't fit the 
steering column support.  I had to modify the bracket and then make a 
spacer so the switch could be depressed by the brake pedal.  Looking all 
over the internet, I found 2 switches.  One's number was one digit 
higher and the other was one digit lower than the numbers stamped into 
my switch.  Their pictures look identical to my switch, but the pics are 
very small.

How likely is it that there were three different switches with different 
numbers that look nearly identical but have different dimensions.  In 
other words did I hack up an original switch because it had been beaten 
into half-a$$ed fitting where the correct switch would have just dropped 
into place like it was designed for that space on the column support?

I'm not losing any sleep over that possibility, my car is a driver and I 
choose function over "correctness".  My brake lights now work and don't 
kill my battery and I'm callin' it DONE.

I did come up with a new year's resolution as a result of several 
adventures under the dashboard of the AZDart, though.  If I need to do 
more work under there, I'm taking the seat out so I can lie on the floor 
pan instead of being a contortionist and collecting a bunch of scrapes, 
bruises and sore muscles.

BC

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