Well I'll be danged. After all these years, I never knew that "special
tool" was actually known by model number 18G 1145.
Bill Holt
At 10:04 PM 2/1/00 -0500, Steve Murphy wrote:
>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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