wiper/washer switch removal

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Tom Woods

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The 101 has a lucas rotating/push switch that controls the wipers and
washers - you turn it for wipers and push it in to wash.
I presume that series's and RRC's had the same one?

I've been stripping the dash ready to tidy it up and rewire and I
can't get the switch out!

I can undo the base but the big plastic knob on the end needs to come
off the shaft to pull it back through the dash..

I'd like the save the switch in one piece - should the knob just pull
off if i lever it, or is it affixed via a more devious method?

There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
rusted if so).

any insight?

I'm guessing from beamend's site that a replacement will cost me about
£20?, or am i looking at the wrong thing? If its actually less than a
fiver i'm less worried about breaking the old one!
 
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:18:41 +0000, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>The 101 has a lucas rotating/push switch that controls the wipers and
>washers - you turn it for wipers and push it in to wash.
>I presume that series's and RRC's had the same one?
>
>I've been stripping the dash ready to tidy it up and rewire and I
>can't get the switch out!
>
>I can undo the base but the big plastic knob on the end needs to come
>off the shaft to pull it back through the dash..
>
>I'd like the save the switch in one piece - should the knob just pull
>off if i lever it, or is it affixed via a more devious method?
>
>There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
>knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
>rusted if so).
>
>any insight?
>

There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
expensive to replace if you break it.

Alex
 
In message <[email protected]>
Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:18:41 +0000, Tom Woods
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >The 101 has a lucas rotating/push switch that controls the wipers and
> >washers - you turn it for wipers and push it in to wash.
> >I presume that series's and RRC's had the same one?
> >
> >I've been stripping the dash ready to tidy it up and rewire and I
> >can't get the switch out!
> >
> >I can undo the base but the big plastic knob on the end needs to come
> >off the shaft to pull it back through the dash..
> >
> >I'd like the save the switch in one piece - should the knob just pull
> >off if i lever it, or is it affixed via a more devious method?
> >
> >There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
> >knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
> >rusted if so).
> >
> >any insight?
> >
>
> There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
> shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
> switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
> expensive to replace if you break it.
>
> Alex

579006 Series 3 Wiper Switch (Lucas) £20.13 inc VAT

Not that bad.

Richard

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:55:10 +0000, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
>shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
>switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
>expensive to replace if you break it.

Its not moving in. I will try special tool number 1 and a small drift
on it tonight.

 
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:44:03 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>579006 Series 3 Wiper Switch (Lucas) £20.13 inc VAT
>
>Not that bad.

I'd possibly say its not that good either ;)

I'm not referring to your price (as its probably more expensive
elsewhere!), but £20 just for a switch is more than i'd prefer to
spend on one!

 
I replaced mine with a standard flip switch and a seperate temporary contact
switch for the wipers. An original is too expencive for the purpose it
serves. Depends how original you want things to be.

The self park switch on the wiper motor long since ceased working anyway,
which costs as much as the original rotating wiper switch, and if the pair
of them are knackered that is just silly money.


--
þT

L'autisme c'est moi

"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"



"Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The 101 has a lucas rotating/push switch that controls the wipers and
> washers - you turn it for wipers and push it in to wash.
> I presume that series's and RRC's had the same one?
>
> I've been stripping the dash ready to tidy it up and rewire and I
> can't get the switch out!
>
> I can undo the base but the big plastic knob on the end needs to come
> off the shaft to pull it back through the dash..
>
> I'd like the save the switch in one piece - should the knob just pull
> off if i lever it, or is it affixed via a more devious method?
>
> There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
> knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
> rusted if so).
>
> any insight?
>
> I'm guessing from beamend's site that a replacement will cost me about
> £20?, or am i looking at the wrong thing? If its actually less than a
> fiver i'm less worried about breaking the old one!


 
On or around Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:26:14 +0000, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:55:10 +0000, Alex <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
>>shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
>>switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
>>expensive to replace if you break it.
>
>Its not moving in. I will try special tool number 1 and a small drift
>on it tonight.

it should move thusly - took me a while to work out how to remove the knob
from one once.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
other people to be entirely to your liking?"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xvi.
 
I had one once and it flew apart never to be re-asembled hence its
replacement with a toggle switch. anyway I like toggle switches with a nice
sound click to them.


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes



"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:26:14 +0000, Tom Woods
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>
> it should move thusly - took me a while to work out how to remove the knob
> from one once.
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
> "If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
> other people to be entirely to your liking?"
> Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xvi.


 

>> >There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
>> >knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
>> >rusted if so).
>> >
>> >any insight?
>> >
>>
>> There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
>> shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
>> switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
>> expensive to replace if you break it.
>>
>> Alex
>
>579006 Series 3 Wiper Switch (Lucas) £20.13 inc VAT
>
>Not that bad.
>

Speak for yourself, i think £20 for a switch is outrageous. Especially
when the toggle switches that populate the rest of the dash are about
£4 a go.

Alex
 
Alex wrote:

>
>>> >There is what looks like a metal pin half way up the shaft of the
>>> >knob. should this be a small screw head? (looks like it has snapped or
>>> >rusted if so).
>>> >
>>> >any insight?
>>> >
>>>
>>> There should be a little round metal pin about 2/3 of the way up the
>>> shaft of the knob. Press this in and the knob should pull off the
>>> switch. It is indeed the same as a Series III item, but flaming
>>> expensive to replace if you break it.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>
>>579006 Series 3 Wiper Switch (Lucas) £20.13 inc VAT
>>
>>Not that bad.
>>
>
> Speak for yourself, i think £20 for a switch is outrageous. Especially
> when the toggle switches that populate the rest of the dash are about
> £4 a go.
>
> Alex

A quick look didn't find a price but I suspect it is cheap compared to the
same item for a 110
JD
 
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:28:56 +0000, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Especially
>when the toggle switches that populate the rest of the dash are about
>£4 a go.

you can get a plastic toggle switch for 60p from VWP (are they really
inferior to the lucas ones?)...

The specialist switches like the lucas wiper washer one are always
more expensive.

 
On or around Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:15:52 +0000, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:28:56 +0000, Alex <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Especially
>>when the toggle switches that populate the rest of the dash are about
>>£4 a go.
>
>you can get a plastic toggle switch for 60p from VWP (are they really
>inferior to the lucas ones?)...
>
>The specialist switches like the lucas wiper washer one are always
>more expensive.

Lucas toggles always have a nice feel to them, though. especially the
2-position side-and-head ones.

Motor World have a nice line in all-metal ones, with metal toggle bit. but
they're not cheap.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of
a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane
complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to
obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
Today, all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is
available to anyone. - Tom Weller, Science Made Stupid, 1986
 
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:05:47 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Motor World have a nice line in all-metal ones, with metal toggle bit. but
>they're not cheap.

I used metal ones from maplins when i rewired the landy. lasting well
and they were only about £2.
 
Just updating because after trying to suqeeze the metal bit in using
all sorts of combinationg of pliers and screws i decided to tap it
with the hammer and the plastic knob smashed off!.

Switch still seems to work though, so i will have to fashion a
replacement knob.

With the knob off it is clear that the metal bit was never going to
move anyway as its very rusty!
 
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