Re: Headlight switch removal help

Posted by Jim McDermaid On 2015/4/17 19:13:11

The lubriplate will be OK. Don't use WD-40.

The tabs that keep the switch together can break off esprcially if you are not the first to take it apart.

The little lugs you plug the wires into break the phenolic which has probably decomposed. The plastic insulation on the wires will have become stiff.

I plan to put a relay on my headlights.

Coming home in the dark one night all the lights including headlights went suddenly off when I turned into my neighborhood. I discovered later after I survived, that the wire that runs to the light bulb in the transmission selector on the steering column had shorted up at the socket.

Getting that ligh back in was a major PITA after I put in a new wire.

I have a friend who got his watch band across a 12 volt car battery using an end wrench. Welded it to his arm while glowing brightly.

Jim