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| Author: | Nongan [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | How difficult is it to replace a turn signal switch? |
I have found my turn signal switch getting sloppier and sloppier and it has stopped returning on the right turn signal, so I was looking through my parts bin and I found a new turn signal switch! So now the question is, how hard is it to pull the column apart enough to get the switch replaced? Its my daily driver so it would have to be a day project, or a weekend project if I wasn't going anywhere. |
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| Author: | Nongan [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:34 pm ] |
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nevermind, found the answer with some quality time with the search feature |
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| Author: | Nongan [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:19 pm ] |
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Well a half hour later and its all changed. The worst part was feeding the plug down the column, but I now have a very firm feeling turn signal switch and a return that works in both directions. |
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| Author: | Reed [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:37 pm ] |
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Yay! |
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| Author: | Sam Powell [ Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:57 am ] |
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Congratulations for sure. Do you know whose part you used? The replacement parts I have seen all have short leads that require splices that end up in the column, and thus are too fat to fit down in the column. AT least through the thin column of a '69. I replaced mine once years ago, and it broke soon after. It was old, and came outof a junk car, so the plastic was not any better than the old one I took out. I have just gotten in the habit of cancelling it by hand which is ALMOST automatic. Sometimes I act my age and drive along with the blinker on. If I could find a good replacement for a '69 I would do this again. Dan? Sam |
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| Author: | Nongan [ Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:20 am ] |
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I'm sorry, but I don't know the part exactly, it came with the car and had full length wires with the connector already on it. The previous owner's dad is a mopar junkie and we talk a lot. I'll ask him next time I see him and see if he remembers what brand he got. Description: Yellow turn cam, no roller on horn contact, just a peg. Made in a Eastern country, can't remember which exactly, but it wasn't Chinese I know that. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:28 am ] |
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Are ya sure? All those yellow plastic switches with a peg-type horn contact I've seen are from China. (And I've never seen a new T/S switch come without full-length, terminated wires, but it wouldn't surprise me; there's no auto part that can't be made a little cheaper and a little nastier  )
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| Author: | Nongan [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:37 am ] |
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Dan iirc it says made in India. It's not brand new, I bought the car in 2008 and it was laying in the trunk among all the parts so it's at least a few years old. And even if it is from china it's a big step up from my worn out sloppy broken one. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:46 am ] |
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Oog. Indian-made parts vs. Chinese-made parts… …um… …wow, this is really hard to choose. 
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| Author: | wjajr [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:12 pm ] |
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Dan: Quote: Oog. Indian-made parts vs. Chinese-made parts…
Dose sacred cow pucky count for anything? |
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| Author: | Nongan [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:01 pm ] |
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Quote: Oog. Indian-made parts vs. Chinese-made parts…
Hahaha, yeah but you have to remember this was already laying in my car so I just put it in. If it ever (I know it will) goes out I want to replace it with a oe type switch, like the ones you offer for the earlier a bodies, especially since cost isn't bad at all on one of those.
…um… …wow, this is really hard to choose. |
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| Author: | Jljde [ Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:43 am ] |
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I bought one from Dan and it is pretty easy to get in. |
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