How do I remove the wiper and headlight knobs?
Post Fiend
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From: Coutts Canada
There is a tab that holds the bezels on and to take them off you need to use a pick to get in there (there is a notch in the bevel to get a pick in there, the pick needs to have at least a 90 degree bend in it as well), then you just push that tab (its like a pring) back and pull the bezels off while holding these tabs off. Its pretty easy but it can be a PITA sometime when they don't want to corporate.
Laughing Gas
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From: Minnesota
Agree on the wiper **** but IIRC the headlight **** is permanently attached to the shaft and the shaft is removed from the switch on just about all the older Fords with a push/pull switch.
To remove the ****/shaft you have to reach up under the dash, find the release button on the side of the switch housing, push the button in and pull the ****/shaft out. Don't remember specifically where the release button is on the switch body but I think it is opposite the terminals, maybe on the top? If you feel around (not much else you can do) you'll find it.
Roger
To remove the ****/shaft you have to reach up under the dash, find the release button on the side of the switch housing, push the button in and pull the ****/shaft out. Don't remember specifically where the release button is on the switch body but I think it is opposite the terminals, maybe on the top? If you feel around (not much else you can do) you'll find it.
Roger
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when I pulled my switch ***** I just used my gerber tool.
The main tools involved in this process are a mirror and a bent/angled instrument, even a really small hex key will work. Just get that mirror up under the ****, find the metal tab on each switch and push it in (away from the dash) using whatever angled tool you are using. That works for both *****.
You may want to bend the tab back before you reinstall it.
Greg
The main tools involved in this process are a mirror and a bent/angled instrument, even a really small hex key will work. Just get that mirror up under the ****, find the metal tab on each switch and push it in (away from the dash) using whatever angled tool you are using. That works for both *****.
You may want to bend the tab back before you reinstall it.
Greg
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From: NH
I just used the side of a small flat blade screw driver on the notch in the rear of the ****(to press on the spring lick thing). Worked on both wiper and headlight. One truck was an 82 and the other was a 83.
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The headlight switch shaft is best removed when the switch is in the ON position > Depress button (on Top of switch)
Pull shaft.
People struggle with these because they try & pull it out without using this system of removal
Pull shaft.
People struggle with these because they try & pull it out without using this system of removal
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Thanks for the help. I used a hex key as socom suggested and it worked like a charm. Thanks again.
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I just replaced my headlight switch for the third time since purchasing my 1980 F-350 4x4 in 1981. The on/off for the headlights and running lights has yet to fail, but the rheostat controlling the dash lights is guaranteed to fail sooner than later. Removing the lights and wiper/washer ***** as described here will always be a PITA, but after you've exhausted your 4 letter vocabulary poking away at the spring steel retainer clip, each **** will miraculously separate from the shaft.
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