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Old 11-17-2019, 11:36 AM   #4
rotorwrench
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Default Re: Exploded view of light switch

There are three distinct types even though they are all similar. One was for very early cars but was replaced with a little better design early on. The second was still early in 28/29 for the early type headlamps but it has the bale and the later 3-position switch plate. The third is the late design for "TwoLite" head lamps with the 4-position switch plate. There are different length bodies on them that required different length bales so a person has to know what they have.

If yours is still in decent restorable condition, it's usually well worth the effort to restore it. If it's a later repro then it doesn't matter so much. The early headlamps only had one beam brightness then the twolite provided high and low beam brightness levels. The modern repros have deep contact terminal buttons on the switch plate and can be hard to operate due to that. It can damage some of the modern contact spiders because of the extra force required to turn it.

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