All I can tell you is it's not magic and electrons don't change their
ways.  My '84 had the old type switch and my '85 the newer one with
different terminals (and different engagement depth in the transmission).
From taking both apart I can say that the old one was better constructed -
but they both failed while I had the vans.  From water getting in past the
crimp.

Yrs,
d

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:28 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:

> Only Prob with that Hypothesis is that the Orig' "Bad" Switch Goes to
> Closed very close to the Top of the Stroke
>
>