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| | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 | My switch is on the fritz. It has become intermittent. I have to get the key at just the right rotation to get power. Is there a way to get it apart? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 547 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 547 | About the only thing you can take apart from it is take out the lock cylinder. That is done by using a paperclip to depress the little button in the hole. The hole is on the face of the lock cylinder where the key goes. It may be dirty or have crud in there so you can clean it out. If you have a shop manuel it details how to take it apart. Or a search on google would bring it up. If you have a voltmeter that can test for continuity then you can hook up the leads to the power and other terminals on the back and see if you have continuity in all positions. If you don't you may just have a bad ignition switch. Good luck! And hope I didn't confuse things for ya! 
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 | Aaaaah The paperclip trick! That helps | | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 221 | Well I was able to get the cylinder out. This helped me very little. I finally managed to bend the tabs on the back of the switch enough to get the plastic part out that has the contacts and springs. It showed signs of arcing. I took a wire brush and cleaned the contacts really well, greased the moving parts then reassembled the switch. It works better but is still a bit glitchie. Guess I'm going to have to fork out $50 for a new one  | | |
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