[V8] back-up light switch

Kent McLean kentmclean at comcast.net
Wed Apr 29 16:45:50 PDT 2009


Tony and Lillie wrote:
> Kent, at this point the easiest thing to do is put an ohm meter across 
> the switches one at a time and see which goes to zero when in reverse. 
> Car on or not will not matter. One will light for reverse, the other for 
> fifth gear. Hook up the one that drops to zero when the shifter is in 
> reverse, and you will have success.
> 
> The other is for an upshift light. You don't want it lighting up in 
> fifth, when there is no other gear to go into, so that tells the upshift 
> indicator not to come on once you are in top gear.

The Family Album lists them both as back-up light switches.
I'll take your advice and put a meter to them.

-- 
Kent McLean
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"



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