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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 03:03 PM
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Help with high beam lever!

I was fixing the little rod that runs down the steering column to the high beam switch and after I had fixed it I realized something had popped loose on the other end.

So now when I pull the high beam lever it just flops back and forth uselessly and theres a little plastic piece hanging off the rod in there. Does anybody know how it goes back together?
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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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Re: Help with high beam lever!

I think you're going to have to take the wheel off for that one - I may be wrong - good luck.
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Old Jul 28, 2009 | 10:47 PM
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Re: Help with high beam lever!

remove the highbeam switch from down the collumn, you can lower the column a bit for better access, now go up top to where our multi function switch is (turn sigal lever) and remove the cover foreward of it, in there you will see the mechanism that moves the rod, the multifunction lever puses a plastic piesce that the rod rides on, reassemble everything in front of the multi functio lever and tape the rod in place. PUT THE PLASTIC COVER BACK ON, the plastic cover is the support for this setup and without it the rod will fall off the plastic piece and you will have a limp multi function switch again. put the highbeam switch back in place and test your highbeams.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 12:33 AM
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Re: Help with high beam lever!

Originally Posted by Chevy8588
remove the highbeam switch from down the collumn, you can lower the column a bit for better access, now go up top to where our multi function switch is (turn sigal lever) and remove the cover foreward of it, in there you will see the mechanism that moves the rod, the multifunction lever puses a plastic piesce that the rod rides on, reassemble everything in front of the multi functio lever and tape the rod in place. PUT THE PLASTIC COVER BACK ON, the plastic cover is the support for this setup and without it the rod will fall off the plastic piece and you will have a limp multi function switch again. put the highbeam switch back in place and test your highbeams.
This is exactly the problem, I'm just not sure how the little plastic piece goes back onto the rod and then sits against the switch. Could you get me a picture or something like that?

I'll fiddle with it and see if I can get it to work. Thanks for your help.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 02:03 PM
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Re: Help with high beam lever!

Got it guys, thats a tough little sucker to put back together. Thanks for the help.
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