OMG...just went thru this in my 65. Switch was bad but doesn't seem to be your issue. Might give Steve Buzek a call since he has 67 (which is really cool) & might know what might be the problem.

BTW believe 2nd switch was APC, if I recall Steve has them in stock.

6sally6 wrote:

BTW..........your leg is hairy!
6sal6

 
A sign of good circulation.

Don t get me going about turn signals.  My  cars specific failure mechanism was the after market fuse box had the power to all the box fuses go thru the cig lighter fuse.  Sooo voltage in tested good but zero volts out with the cig lighter fuse out.   Only took me  a year of BS testing until I figured it out.  Yes  I know what I'm doing,, just ask me,      

My brake lights went out a couple of weeks ago during the state inspection. The problem was in the trun signal switch. When the turn signal is on the selected side the brake light on that side is turned off and doesn't light. When the 48 year old switch wears out the lever gets stuck half way between the turn and brake position and neither one works. It took me awhile to figure it out. I got a new switch from Rock Auto cause I didn't want a SD brand.

Hunderd bux?!! Are you serious!
I bought a FoMoCo from the dealer(parts guy that was switching from Ford to Chevy car. He had an original. I got it for the "get-shed-of-it price of 40 dollars" and I though that was obscene! WOW...did I get a "deal"!!
Still a good buy.
6sal6

The 65-66 Ford NOS TURN SIGNAL SWITCH NOW GOES FOR MINIMUM $159 everywhere I looked. I think I had to pay a bit more than that.

Better than bitcoin!

You have to keep in mind that NOS at this point could be 50+ years old.  Even just sitting around on a shelf tags yellow, stuff gets dusty, etc.  Thus far everything I've bought from eBay claiming to be NOS was just that. 

The only bad experience I've had is that I just bought a set of taillight lenses that the company claimed were NOS, only to discover when they arrived that they were actually reproductions.  Then I had to spend ten minutes on the phone schooling the guy about the differences between NOS and the Ford licensed reproductions.  Unfortunately on this particular part the reproductions, even though licensed by Ford, really are not exact reproductions, and it does muddy the water that they carry both the Ford logo use the original Ford part number.  I can see the guy's point, but I still don't think I should have to eat the return shipping.  My point was that I shouldn't know the products he sells better than he does, and basically I'm now having to pay $20 for his education. 

Sorry, not trying to hijack.  Had to gripe about that to some guys I know will understand.

Yeah, and that was kind of my whole point.  I paid $150/ea. for them because they were supposed to be NOS, which is a good price.  Typically they are in the $100-$20 range, you know how NOS stuff is.  Repros are $155 a set from one of 20 different vendors, with free shipping.  And my point to the guy was "what if I didn't know the difference?  Ten years from now I'm at a show in a concourse class and I lose because I have repro taillights that I thought were NOS, because someone sold them to me as NOS and I didn't know the difference.  Like that scenario would EVER happen with the car I'm building, but still

I can't say when Ford stopped producing them, but as I said, I know that in say '96 they were still readily available from the parts counter.  Now that I'm thinking about it they came in a Ford box, not Motorcraft.  They were definitely blue and white, not red and white.  Not sure if they ever switched that part over the Motorcraft or not. 

Now it could be that in '96 there were still a lot of them sitting on a warehouse shelf, or at the dealership parts departments, but at that point the car was already almost 30 years old and I can tell you from searching for parts for my '89 GT (ironically about the same age now that my '67 was when I was restoring it) that most parts for that car from Ford are NLA.  One switch in ten might still be available, whereas in '96 I'll bet I could have gotten almost any switch for my '67.

Part of that is that in the late '00s new systems of inventory management designed to reduce costs meant dealerships carried less and less parts.  The days of them having nearly any common part when you walked through the door are gone.  Today, if its not an oil filter or other common part good luck.  Yet another reason that so much commerce is moving to the net.  If I'm going to have to wait a couple days anyway, might as well pay less for it too and buy from Amazon, Auto Nation, etc. 

Yeah, can't put anything past the Chinese.  It would not be the first time I'd seen or heard of a bogus Ford part in a bogus Ford box.