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MG MGB Technical - 72/73 Indicator Stalk on a 67?

I don't like having the high beam 'button' on the floor as it's quite awkward and the fact that I'm vertically challenged also doesn't help so I wanted to install an indicator stalk from a 72 or 73. Does anyone know if this is a feasible idea? Thanks.
Mike MaGee

Mike

I have installed the later combination switch on my 1963 for the opposite reason. I am so tall that I find the floor dipswitch stops me putting my foot under the clutch on a long trip.

It is perfectly feasable and all the wires can be matched.

The hardest part was getting the early cowell to fit, but it can be done. I had to elongate the slot where the lever exits, but a little trial and error works wonders. I used a Dremel for this job.

Apart from the different knob on the end it looks as if the car was made with the later switch.

cheers
Ian Buckley

Mike,
I have a right hand drive '66 and had problems with my size 12s tangling with the floor switch. It's even worse on a rhd car due to the tighter foot well on that side. Anyway, I was whining about it to Bob Thompson about 7 or 8 years ago and he suggested that I take a Volvo latching hi/low headlight relay and splice it into my harness. It took me an hour or so to figure out how to wire it up, but it was no real problem. As I recall, I ended up routing the ground through the flasher part of my stock, early switch. With the headlights off, the lights flash when I pull back on the switch and with them on, they switch from bright to dim just like a modern car. I've had zero problems with this setup and it required no wire cutting. The relay mounts to an existing screw on the inside firewall behind the glovebox. The relay does audibly click, though, when you flash the lights.
David
David

You might need to use a switch prior to the 1970 model year as the direction indicator cancelling changed from the peg screwed into the column on the earlier cars to a sliding clip on the outside of the column.
Paul Hunt

This thread was discussed between 09/12/2003 and 10/12/2003

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