Vacuum Hoses Connect to Plastic Nipples

[Print Bear <prntbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I searched the archives for 'headlight switch rebuild' and didn't find your article. If you know where it is or have a better way of locating it I'd be very interested! Needless to say, I knew that someone had been this way before!

Thank you,

--Ed
EdH 
'68 LeBaron FDHT
http://homepage.mac.com/printbear/PhotoAlbum3.html


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 11:29 PM, Dick Benjamin wrote:

> Back in January 2003, I posted detailed directions as to both of these items
> (the headlight switch rebuild and the HVAC push button control replacement).
> Search the IML archives, you should find both posts.  If you can't let me
> know and I'll dig it out for you.
>
> Dick Benjamin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Print Bear" <prntbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:44 PM
> Subject: IML: Vacuum Hoses Connect to Plastic Nipples
>
>
> > Thanks to Dave I managed to remove my 68's dash panel and revealed to
> > me was the scourge of the ages:
> >
> > 1. Water damage to the Headlight Switch: I will attempt to disassemble
> > and rejuvenate this
> > 2. Water damage to Dashboard light dimmer: Same as above.
> >
> > These will involve drilling out the stamping and probably watching a
> > bunch of springs leaping into my face never to be reassembled again. I
> > will fill you in on this operation as it happens. Hoping that this will
> > be the remedy for non-operative parking lights and dash lights.
> >
> > Next, I encountered the source of a strange  and erie sound that comes
> > from the dash area when the car is running. I wasn't sure if it was the
> > Speedo cable or the vacuum for the parking break. Instead, it is the
> > vacuum switch which controls the rear window defogger or the rear seat
> > heat. The switch is white plastic and has several nipples, about 3/8"
> > long, maybe 1/8" diameter, arranged on the rear of the body. They, in
> > turn, fit into a female socket made of rubber. The problem: One of the
> > nipples is inside the socket, broken off from the back of the switch,
> > and at least one of the nipples, still on the switch, is cracked and
> > about to come off. Air is being sucked into the cracked and broken
> > nipples and that is making the sound I'm hearing.
> >
> > Is there a way to glue these back on and strengthen the cracked one?
> > I'm sure there's no replacement for this part. I wouldn't even ask. It
> > has a 58024 and a Pentastar stamped into the plastic.
> >
> > I have uploaded pictures of the operation: Two corroded switches and
> > the back of the plastic vacuum switches to the following URL:
> >
> > http://homepage.mac.com/printbear/PhotoAlbum4.html