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| Author: | gdizzle [ Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Installing a new Signal Switch.... |
Hey I know Dan has made an instruction sheet on how to carefully fish the wires through the column when replacing the turn signal switch. I cant seem to locate those instructions. Anyone know where they are?? Thanks for any help. 66 dart |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:15 pm ] |
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Disconnect the battery negative terminal. Remove the steering wheel's central ornament. On '62-'66 A-bodies it carefully pries off; there's a screwdriver slot at the bottom of it where it meets the metal horn ring. Other years and models might have pry-off ornaments, too, or might have ones that you grasp and turn counter clockwise like a medicine bottle cap. Once the ornament is off, remove the ground wire from its terminal. Remove the three screws holding the horn ring/button and horn switch. Lift out the horn switch. Remove the steering wheel nut. Use a steering wheel puller to remove the wheel. Remove the single screw that holds the turn signal lever to the switch and remove the lever. Remove the three screws holding the switch to the column and lift out the metal retainer plate. The switch plugs into the under-dash wiring harness with a rectangular nylon multi-connector block at the base of the steering column (inside the car). You remove the nylon connector block by releasing each individual wire from the block, one at a time. This is achieved by means of a terminal extractor pick (or, if you're in a hurry and don't want to spend money, a darning needle or mini screwdriver), inserted into the slot at the "front" (connector) end to depress the terminal's lock tang. Then, while holding the tang down, a careful tug of the wire pulls it out the back of the connector block. Draw yourself a diagram (or snap a pic) of which wire goes to which slot in the connector block. Once you've released all the terminals from the block, tie a long piece of string or twine round the bundle of wires at the very end near the terminals. Withdraw the old switch, which will pull the string up the column. Untie it, tie it round the wire bundle on the new switch, then pull the string to guide the new wire bundle down the column without any of the wires snagging and refusing to show themselves at the bottom. Insert the wires into their correct locations in the terminal block. Sometimes the light and dark green aren't as distinctly different to each other on the new switch as they were on the old switch; look for a yellow tracer on one of the green wires and that's your light green. Same goes for the brown wires, which sometimes come through as brown and brown with tracer stripe instead of dark brown and light brown. Plug the connectors back together, reassemble everything up top (make sure to match the steering wheel's double-wide master spline with its mate on the steering shaft)...and you're done! The new switch will seem VERY stiff and "clicky" compared to the sloppy old one. That's normal. |
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| Author: | bcschief [ Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:03 pm ] |
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Step 1 disconnect the battery Step 2 follow Dans instructions Brian |
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