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Console switch gets crud inside.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:16:20
In Reply to: reverse light switch if a stick, automatic just forget,, jimmy, Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:29:23
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Not sure of verts, but the console switch, 3 positions, does indeed screw up.
Lots of times, short of being truly dead, it gets lots of crud inside it and works again after cleaning.
To do, pry it up from the console, unplug the two wires and take it to a clean well lighted table. Pry down along the side of the rocking part, say with a small screwdriver or maybe a nail file, and bow the plastic of the switch housing out to the side. That lets the rocking part pop free - - it has little black stubs of an axle, sort of, out each side fitting into pockets in the switch housing. You might have to pry on the other side after freeing one; then the switch comes apart.
I'm trying to remember but there's a spring-loaded pin out its bottom that you don't want to lose. And contacts. They need to be clean. Go ahead and wash the interior out in the sink. Use an old toothbrush and some soap if it's cruddy.
The contacts will be the brass poking up from its bottom, and they can be burnt away too far to save, but often not and the cleaning works. Scrape them bright, then put everything back just as it was and pry the sides to pop the rocking part back in, plug it in and test it.
If still no go, check the bulbs, then if still nada, it's probably new switch time.
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