Are you sure it is Phillips or is it Pozi Drive?
Matt P
On Sep 30, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Jim Johnson wrote:
> Dunno if it helps, but my 68 Midget has Phillips heads in the surround. I
> undid
> the bolts that hold the column and it dropped down just far enough to be
> able to reach
> all the surround screws.
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, James Gruber
<thistle_3619@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Quick answer needed. Finally getting around to fixing turn signals that
>> suddenly stopped working after I had GS and 3 friends 8,9,10, & 11 y.o
boys
>> playing drive Bugsy in the garage. Lots of enthusiatic horn blowing, head
>> light flashing and tugging and pulling on turn signals and washer stalk.
>> The
>> casualty of this is turn signals no longer work and the switch cluster is
>> now
>> loose on the dash.
>>
>> Emergency flashers work just fine but when I flip on a
>> turn signal I can hear a short 1/2 a click out of the TS Flasher and then
>> nothing. This is on a '68 which only has a single flasher unit. Thinking
>> since
>> switch assembly seems loose perhaps I've lost my ground to the column if
>> indeed one is there. Horn still works and so do wipers so that may be a
red
>> herring.
>>
>> Quick question - Screw types on column surround Phillips or
>> Standard. There are 4 bolts I know but can you access them without
>> unbolting
>> the column. Last time I had it apart was > 10 years ago and I can no
longer
>> remember if I needed to drop the column down to get at those screws or
not.
>> My
>> eyes are betraying me 10 years later and I just can't see in there any
>> more.
>> Who can help?
>>
>> BTW it was a hoot watching these kids pretend to be driving.I
>> LMAO and even though I think these guys caused my problem I 'd have them
>> back
>> to see them enjoy Bugsy.
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