[crittercreek]

I got the switch from a dealer in Sebewaing, Michigan. But he picked it up from the distributer in Pontiac, I think.

It was a simple thing to fix. Once I seen the problem, it was obvious that the two contacts were not lining up properly. The springs that are intended to make sure there is good contact between the upper and lower contacts could not bring them together because, being misaligned, the moveable contact was riding crosswise on the insulating mounting board, thus leaving an open circuit, where the two contacts could not quite touch.

What made this a tough problem was that I didn't suspect the new switch would be bad, so I figured either I did something wrong or that coincidentally something else went bad beside the obviously bad F/R switch. I wasted a lot of time on this and hopefully this will save someone else from running in to the same problem.