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I tried to find a Lucas switch for the Mega but they have become obsolete. It's the 3-position label I coveted

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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
They became obsolete when the SNAP, SNAP kept waking the DW up.

Grumpy exactly when did they replace the Sheep Grease (lanolin) with ninety weight gear oil? What a rook! Ain't nuthin better than pork grease mixed with sheep grease. Lacquer thinner? Modernist! Mineral spirits lasts longer. Use with 0000 steel wool to put a polish on the flivver that'll knock their eyes out!

And remember, ****** the spark lever BEFORE getting out. Beats getting hurled up over the hood.

In truth, if you use mineral spirits it becomes a completly different formula that was used in muffler bearings and bushings, found in early exotic sports cars like the English Ford Cortina, Honda 600's, and early Honda 50 Mopeds.

The blinker switch was very reliable. The blinker wires each, seperately, connected to an individual terminal in the switch. The shaft connected to a small pump with an intrigal fluid resivior. Lines then ran to each blinker for fluid supply. The faster the blinker blinked, the more fluid was pumped to it.
The main reason they were discontinued was when cars began to be equipped with the 4-way emergency blinkers. When they were used, the switch couldn't decide which blinkers needed the most fluid, and shut down.
By the time a suitable replacement was invented, it had been replaced by a tranducer operated switch that was vacume operated.
Grumpy
I forgot to mention, their still available through Yugo Warranty Parts.com. When they stopped being used here, the entire supply was sold to Yugo Inc.
Grumpy

It's missing a Hahnenkamm

KRAPP! I keeps forgetting RHEETARD is a neu-neu in the tech forum. Would it be better the refer to things as making the spark timing "Fashionably Late"?

They became obsolete when the SNAP, SNAP kept waking the DW up.

Grumpy exactly when did they replace the Sheep Grease (lanolin) with ninety weight gear oil? What a rook! Ain't nuthin better than pork grease mixed with sheep grease. Lacquer thinner? Modernist! Mineral spirits lasts longer. Use with 0000 steel wool to put a polish on the flivver that'll knock their eyes out!

And remember, ****** the spark lever BEFORE getting out. Beats getting hurled up over the hood.

Hard to find. Originally found in old Army Surplus Stores next to cosmoline remover.
Supply has pretty much dried up, but it's easy to make...
Quart of 90 weight gear oil
Lb. package of lard, room temperture ( can use Crisco if lard not available)
Pint of lacquer thinner.
Mix it up and there you are. Multi viscosity blinker fluid.
Grumpy

What is it? looks like a Make Before Break UPS bypass swx ?

Grumpy
where do you go to buy your refill of blinker fluid
my blinker fluid reservoir is getting low

That, everyone, is a shaft driven blinker fluid control switch. It controls the variable fluid viscosity valving in the lines leading to the blinker fluid resivoir.
Generally found in older motor homes manufactured prior to 1973, but could have possibly been retro-fitted to newer years as they were known to be more reliable than the newer pressure controlled switchs that replaced them.
Additionaly, they were found to work equally well controling the windshield fluid output on early model Yugo's.
Grumpy

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