Loren: Well stated. I've done this about a million times. Switch is rather tight witout loosenig the screws. Probably shout disconnect the battery. Sometimes the old light switch will come apart rather than off!! Al Brase LOREN BUSCH wrote: > Rich asked ....Is there any way to get at this switch to replace > it without removing the dash board?.... > Yes. Remove the cover over the instrument cluster. Pull the connector > off of the BRAKE indicator light that is above the light switch. There > are tabs on each side of the switch itself to depress. Depress and pull > the switch out. Expect a lot of jiggling and maneuvering. You can > simplify this a lot, especially getting the switch back in, if you > loosen the whole cluster by taking out the four screw, one in each > corner, that hold the cluster to the dash. Be careful on this, > especially the screw at the right front, very easy to loose. > |
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