And just what did you think that you had, if not a 'special' tool?
Elizabeth
At 09:10 PM 2/1/00 -0500, Elliott DeGraff wrote:
>You might do as I did. Get a wife with small, flexible, strong fingers,
>who doesn't have claustrophobia and doesn't mind lying on her back,
>trying to see up in the dark, with crud falling in her eyes, while
>listening to your words of encouragement telling her what she ought to
>feel and what she ought to do when she feels it. Seriously, that's how
>I got mine out. It doesn't take a special tool.
>
>Elliott DeGraff
>2 71Bs (one in pieces)
>
>Dave Wood wrote:
>>
>> Larry,
>>
>> I replaced the headlight switch on my 72 B not long ago, need to replace
the
>> heater fan switch also (soon as I get a new one). The shop manual
describes
>> a tool 18G 1145, which is probably impossible to get. The switches have
>> tabs that need to be pressed in from the back of the switch in order for
the
>> switch to be removed from the front of the dash. I was able to do it
with a
>> small screw driver pressing in each tab and pushing the switch toward the
>> front to hold the tabs in. There are 4 tabs, two to a side on the
headlight
>> switch and I suspect the same on the others. You might be able to make the
>> tool, it is a three sided tool that looks like an open ended wrench with no
>> handle that is the same size as the back of the switch. You press it on
and
>> it depresses the tabs so that you can push the switch through the dash. I
>> believe there are two sizes depending on the switch.
>>
>> Good luck. Let me know how you do as I have to do it again with my heater
>> fan switch. I think I caused floods and lightning last time trying to get
>> my hands behind the dash with a mirror and flashlight to see what I was
>> doing. The manual says that you have to remove the heater air control
>> before you can remove the heater fan switch.
>>
>> Dave
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