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Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:02 pm

Hi volks,

I have 1956 oval and im missing the dome light door switches..i am trying to find a pair but i don't know how they look. Do you have a picture or some one maybe can guide me please

Thanks
Andre

Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:36 pm

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/DetailsList.cfm?ID=113947561B

Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:12 pm

i was going to buy another pair for a later bug by mistake..thanks to you now i know which i need...does any body have a set for sale? :)

thanks again

Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:15 pm

they said they have not received these since the first of the year. I also was looking for one. Found one at the classis, but honestly they are really hard to find. Keep your eyes posted on the classifieds and im sure you will find one.

Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:42 am

i managed to find a pair but the owner doesn't know if they came out from an oval or not..what you guys think ?..are these the one for my 56oval?

Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:26 am

Yep, those are 1954-60 door pin switches

Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:45 pm

thanks buddy :)

Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:07 pm

Get some contact cleaner and clean them really well, as dirty as they are they will only work intermittantly. Around here Radio shack sells cleaner for rotary dial TV tuners (remember those?) which is very good for this kind of thing.

Don

Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:25 pm

you know come to think of it my dome light does not work and it has a new bulb in it and the wores or hooked up correct...maybe I should clean theses pieces...what part actually should be cleaned?

Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:13 pm

I cleaned mine using a Dremel tool with a small wire wheel attachment.

Clean the whole backside area, around the spring & the area whre the wire slips into. If you look closely, you'll notice two pointed arrows that actually make the grounding connection, make sure the contact area is clean

Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:23 pm

I will give it a shot...and see if that gives me light!

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:21 am

Quote: I cleaned mine using a Dremel tool with a small wire wheel attachment

That sounds a little too aggressive for me. If you grind the plating off the contact, it will oxidize very quickly as opposed to being just dirty. A gentle scrub with a small wire brush and some good contact cleaner shoud do the job just fine. Although I will say that new is best.

Don

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:46 am

Can you scuff them up with some sand paper?

Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:38 pm

I could not recommend sandpaper.

Don

Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:38 pm

sunroof wrote: Quote: I cleaned mine using a Dremel tool with a small wire wheel attachment

That sounds a little too aggressive for me.

Have you ever seen the Dremel accessory wire wheel? It couldn't break the skin at 500rpm, let alone remove some plating. It'll polish the heck out of the Copper contacts on those switches though

Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:08 pm

I use contact cleaner, a 'bright boy' which is like a pink eraser except it has more grit and is used for cleaning model railroad and slot car track, and emery boards I steal from my wife. Sometimes a white vinyl eraser will do it.

Most important thing is to get em to ground properly- could be the switch, could be the light socket contacts.

Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:42 pm

Please give me a hand I am getting fustrated.....

ok I just got out of the garage I cleaned both door switches up really good Drivers side has two wires connected together that go into the rear of the switch correct? and the passengers switch has one wire...got them both back in the car...Nuthing happens. I remove the dome lamp and disconnet the wires marking them to what went where...I cleaned up all the metal contacts in the dome light swith and install it back in as I am installing it back in I get a spark on the side where one of the little niples sticks out but not light and the fuse is fine....so I then take the dome light unit and sit the metal prongs holding the bulb in against the body(where the headliner glues too headliners) outside of where the dome light normally sits and BAM it lights up for a split second and goes out...I check the fuse and it blew any suggestions...is it the switch maybe? do I have something ass backwards??? Dang I hate wiring.

Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:28 pm

Single wire from passenger side switch goes to drivers side, and is soldered together with wire that goes from drivers side to light switch in the light. Other side of switch is grounded, and the wire from the other end of the bulb goes to fuse box.

Check the length of the wire sticking into the door pin switches- if its too long, you might be shorting out into the body at the pin switch.

Since you got a light for a sec, it sounds like you grounded the other end (opposite the switch in the light) of the bulb holder against the body- that end does not ground, as the light switch grounds.

Look at the type 1 wiring diagram. I had issues with mine because the plastic switch in the light itself was cracked, moving a bit and not allowing a good ground at the switch

Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:06 pm

on the drivers side door switch I have the two wires stripped and twisted together into the switch not soldered...I will check on the wire being to long though.....as for the dome lamp the red wire I think goes into the switch side and the switch faces the front of the car correct.... since this is the only side that gets grounded what the heck part of the light is touching a ground? is it that little nipple on the side? or is there something up in the dome light hole touching it cause I don't see anything up there.

Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:54 pm

my03yellowv wrote: on the drivers side door switch I have the two wires stripped and twisted together into the switch not soldered...I will check on the wire being to long though.....as for the dome lamp the red wire I think goes into the switch side and the switch faces the front of the car correct.... since this is the only side that gets grounded what the heck part of the light is touching a ground? is it that little nipple on the side? or is there something up in the dome light hole touching it cause I don't see anything up there.

There's your problem. The switch side is connected to Ground. That way, the switch can choose between On (constant ground on dome light opening), door (Brown wire to pin switches) or Off.