Here is my turn signal switch which was hacked by the previous owner to make way for a sports steering wheel... will replace it with the new switch below... this will be temporary as i am looking for an SWF version... the one below is some crappy Taiwanese made stuff... does its job though....
Unbolted the rubber coupling and the the column bracket and pulled the whole assembly out... the steering rod didnt want to come loose cause there was so much of grime, grease and paint on it...but the turn signal switch came off easily only one screw
That grey bit on the steering column is the original colour of the car..... its the only part that i have seen the original colour on... didnt find it anywhere else on the car... it was a nice feeling seeing it for the first time... i was like woah!!.... looks like Fontana Grey...
There was something keeping the parts together... with a small screw driver i pried what looked like a bearing off from the column.... then the whole thing came apart easily....
The bearing looks like its made from copper.... it had a circlip holding it together...
as you can see it was bone dry... im sure bearings need greasing ,....
So i greased it up real good and put everything back together....
I took the steering rod out because im planning to upgrade it to a collapsible type from a post 68 model.... and then mate it with the 70s Aussie Standard Beetle steering wheel i got many moons ago...that will be show in a later post...
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