72 - 74 turn signal switch

[rowling]

Okay - for those of you who have succesfully reassembled one of these turn signal switches, how the heck did you get it back together? Any tips or suggestions are appreciated.

Or if you want to make a few bucks I can maybe mail all the bits to you....

Thanks

[busdaddy]

Use sticky grease to hold the balls and springs in place while you herd it all into place, a smaller C clamp or rubber bands can help keep things sort of where they belong until you can pinch it fully shut.
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[alman72]

you using the pic from the other thread? your ball in the right place?

[kaiisons]

I super glue the small springs to the brass contact this stops it from going in crooked and I use grease to hold the copper roller halfway up the bridge.

This is the way that i do it assuming you've installed the trigger and springs onto the bridge and super glued the springs onto the brass contact

1. Hold the steel cage in your hand and install the bridge into to the two holes.
2. Put some grease in the middle of the "V" on the bridge and install copper roller
3. roll the bridge forward outside of the cage with one hand and with the arm in your other hand squeeze the spring against the copper roller IMPORTANT! make sure the spring is square with the roller.
4. roll bridge back upright ensuring you line up the hole on the main body with the steel cage and the pin on the trigger is in the slot on the cage and in the body.
5. hold everything together squarely and put the bottom plate on squarely! I use a cable tie to hold everything together before I fold the ears on the cage down.

Good luck!

[rowling]

Thank you for the responses. Sorry for taking awhile to answer - in my attempt to reassemble the switch I managed to lose one of the two small springs. I cleaned off my work bench, pulled the bench out from the wall, went through the garbage, swore, had a beer, went through the garbage again, swept the floor a few times and still could not find it.

Gave up, had another beer and figured I would try to make a spring out of a ball point pen spring and it looked not too bad - a bit bigger but still ok. Crazy glued the assembly together as suggested and still struggled with reassembling.

Gave up again and went on to something else. I am much like a crow - when I see something shiny my attention is easily diverted. So I am fiddling with the gas pedal / kick down switch and what do I see... that tiny spring. I could have sworn it was in the assembly when I had it on the bench, but whatever... I'll take it.

So back to reassembling - the ball, as suggested, is in what I think is the right position - at the end of the switch arm.

Just to confirm, the cylinder, a.k.a. roller, is inserted, somehow, into the body against the spring pressure and the flat face fits in the groove of the plastic section that has the hammer connected. The pictures in other threads show the cylinder / roller up and down as opposed to horizontal and inserted against the spring.

Is that right or is there something obvious that I am missing?

[kaiisons]

The pictures show the correct orientation. The flat ends are up and down, not against the spring.

[rowling]

I got it figured out and - hopefully - successfully reassembled. Thanks for the help and suggestions.

[mikedjames]

If I find all the pieces after an incident like that it usually means it will go back together perfectly.

I have dropped ball bearings from the ignition switch internals outdoors under the bus and found them again in the dark, after I found the replacement was wrong and I needed to put the original back together after a forensic disassembly.
I have dropped the unique grubscrew from the ignition switch and found it...
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[old DKP driver]

Question for all that can tell me if my original 72 switch has the same internal
White plastic pieces as found on the 73-74 with the longer stalk.?

Thanks, Chris
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