Searched..no luck Multi Function Switch Change

[Tony H]

About 3 years ago I had an issue where the one Brakelight wouldn't work unless I lifted the Multifunction switch (Turn Signal) Lever a bit. It's become habit now to just lift the lever a bit after using it. Well, it's getting worse.
Question is, does anyone have a procedure to change this switch out of the Steering column?

My original POST:
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119849&highlight=Directional+switch

 

[Maniak]

It is almost too easy..

You take the cover off around the column. IIRC, its 2 screws, but they weren't phillips. I'm thinking torx. I just grabbed a switch from the yard and it definatly wasn't phillips, I just ripped off the cover to get at it (vehicle was pretty much stripped already)

Once the cover is off, its 2 tiny bolts (I think 1/4 or smaller) to take the switch off the column. Then its 3 electrical connectors that just unhook.

Install is just the opposite..

I can't give move info about the bolts on the cover as I haven't had the cover on our column for the last 100k miles.

~Mark

 

[Tony H]

It is almost too easy..

You take the cover off around the column. IIRC, its 2 screws, but they weren't phillips. I'm thinking torx. I just grabbed a switch from the yard and it definatly wasn't phillips, I just ripped off the cover to get at it (vehicle was pretty much stripped already)

Once the cover is off, its 2 tiny bolts (I think 1/4 or smaller) to take the switch off the column. Then its 3 electrical connectors that just unhook.

Install is just the opposite..

I can't give move info about the bolts on the cover as I haven't had the cover on our column for the last 100k miles.

~Mark

Too funny. You started with "After the cover is off" I figured the easy part would be after the cover was off.
I was hoping to get info on getting the cover off. I know on a Chevy I did the Cover was freakin impossible.
Now to find a Switch that is in better shape then the one I have

 

[Maniak]

<snip>I figured the easy part would be after the cover was off.
I was hoping to get info on getting the cover off. I know on a Chevy I did the Cover was freakin impossible.
<snip>

Naw... in this case, the cover is easy.. I just can't remember what the screw type was.. Its just a couple screws easily accessed from the bottom of the column. Nothing else has to come off.

If you want to be adventuresome, you can take off the instrument cluster first, but you don't need to.

~Mark

 

[motopsycho650]

There are about 3-4 screw holding the cover halves together. Remove all the screws. The top & bottom of the cover snap together, so a little effort is needed to pull them apart. Once un-snapped, it just a matter of getting them out. Use the tilt steering and remove the insterment panel cover above the steering wheel. I also had to put the gear selector into 1st or 2nd.