Dunno if it helps, but my 68 Midget has Phillips heads in the surround. I
undid
the bolts that hold the column and it dropped down just far enough to be
able to reach
all the surround screws.
Cheers!!
Jim
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, James Gruber <thistle_3619 at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Quick answer needed. Finally getting around to fixing turn signals that
> suddenly stopped working after I had GS and 3 friends 8,9,10, & 11 y.o boys
> playing drive Bugsy in the garage. Lots of enthusiatic horn blowing, head
> light flashing and tugging and pulling on turn signals and washer stalk.
> The
> casualty of this is turn signals no longer work and the switch cluster is
> now
> loose on the dash.
>
> Emergency flashers work just fine but when I flip on a
> turn signal I can hear a short 1/2 a click out of the TS Flasher and then
> nothing. This is on a '68 which only has a single flasher unit. Thinking
> since
> switch assembly seems loose perhaps I've lost my ground to the column if
> indeed one is there. Horn still works and so do wipers so that may be a red
> herring.
>
> Quick question - Screw types on column surround Phillips or
> Standard. There are 4 bolts I know but can you access them without
> unbolting
> the column. Last time I had it apart was > 10 years ago and I can no longer
> remember if I needed to drop the column down to get at those screws or not.
> My
> eyes are betraying me 10 years later and I just can't see in there any
> more.
> Who can help?
>
> BTW it was a hoot watching these kids pretend to be driving.I
> LMAO and even though I think these guys caused my problem I 'd have them
> back
> to see them enjoy Bugsy.
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