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Help with my 85 headlight switch

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Old 12-02-2008, 05:46 PM
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One day i turned on my headlights and the dash lights were out. Checked the fuse and it pops instantly when i turn on the running/dash lights. The headlights and turn signals work. I checked all the lights and sockets for them, clean and fine. When on to try and replace the switch itself, just the headlight side. when i took it apart it exploded with springs and tiny metal *****. Now I'm in the same spot except there's no handle for my headlight switch. Should i replace the whole combo switch? And how do you get that thing off?
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Old 12-03-2008, 12:20 AM
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you might try posting this in the 1g section you will get more responses





Originally Posted by willraz' post='912800' date='Dec 2 2008, 06:46 PM
One day i turned on my headlights and the dash lights were out. Checked the fuse and it pops instantly when i turn on the running/dash lights. The headlights and turn signals work. I checked all the lights and sockets for them, clean and fine. When on to try and replace the switch itself, just the headlight side. when i took it apart it exploded with springs and tiny metal *****. Now I'm in the same spot except there's no handle for my headlight switch. Should i replace the whole combo switch? And how do you get that thing off?
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yeah you need a whole combo switch, theres a little hose clamp thing on the back, you take off the steering wheel, and loosen the clamp and it slides right off.



if its blowing fuses, that means that theres a short to ground somewhere.
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