Hmmm. I was married for 13 years and NEVER could've gotten my wife to do
that. Maybe I could have if I had a "special tool"!!
-Steve
>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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