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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