[Bricklin] No instrument lights

[Rick at High Tech Coatings]

switch interchanges with 70's corvette, to remove the knob there is metal
button on the switch opposite side as the wires, push and hold this button
while pulling the knob and the knob and shaft will come out.

On 7/1/2012 10:34:08 AM, Scott Isensee (isensee at aol.com) wrote:
> The instrument panel lights on my Bricklin are not coming on. The fuse is
> OK
> and I have rotated the headlight switch rheostat through its full range
> of
> positions. It seems unlikely that the problem is the bulbs because they
> shouldn't have all burned out at once.
>
> What else should I check? I am thinking the most likely problem is a bad
> rheostat in the headlight switch. I tried to pull the switch out so I can
get
> at the connections, but it isn't
> obvious to me how to get the knob off the
> switch. I don't see a set screw. It doesn't seem to pull off (at least
> with as
> hard as I was comfortable pulling without taking a chance on damaging the
> switch). Some of my other cars have a button on the headlight switch that
> releases the knob and shaft, but I can't find one on the Bricklin switch.
Can
> anyone tell me how to get he knob off? Maybe the lower section of the dash
> drops down?
>
> In case I need a new switch, can anyone tell me what it interchanges with?
>
> Scott
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