Re: Ground stud Re: power steering pump replacement

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Most of the time it's easy enough to fit a generic headlight switch from NAPA (ask to see the switch catalog!)to an older Rambler, especially up to 63 American and 62 big cars. After that the designers got a little more creative with the dash. It's still not difficult for the 63-66 big cars. Sometimes Lowes (and most good old fashion hardware stores, like a big Ace Hardware) has shaft couplers in their hard to find section (the slide out boxes with all kinds of strange stuff). These can be used to extend shafts if necessary, though they will make things harder to get to. An angle bracket is easy enough to fashion out of a scrap of sheet metal, or the switch can be destroyed and the bracket pulled off (it doesn't work anyway). The only problem I've encountered with this method is finding a switch that looks like it will fit with a panel light dimmer and dome light switch built in. I managed to get a replacement for an early Hornet (I think, might have been late American) that!
  fit well and the 63 Classic shaft would fit right. But I have wired the instrument lights direct for a friend (he wanted them on bright all the time anyway, like I do!) and wired the dome light into the courtesy light switch. 

Check hot rod sources too! They have all sorts of more or less generic switches and such that can be used as is or easily modified to work. 


On May 3, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> Yeah, but 30+ year old headlight switches are often all crapped
> out.  About half of the ones I see are semi-melted and show signs
> of the push-on connectors overheating. Just fixed the 72 hornet's
> switch!
> 
> So there's a statistically significant window of opportunity that
> the switch dies a day/week/month after installing halogens (or
> regulars, or small stuffed chickens, etc), just proximity.


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