Ferrari Mailing List: Detent ball on headlight switch stalk (was: Re: Transmission / Shifter question)

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Speaking of detent balls, when I recently had my 308 in for the yearly
safety inspection, somehow the detent ball for the headlight switch
had disappeared.  Odd....someone must have taken the switch handle off
and the ball disappeared.  I used a 4mm bead from my wife's craft
stash and it fit perfectly.

In the same area, both wires coming out to the end of that stalk had
broken their solder joints.  The top one was easy to repair, but for
me who is unskilled with a soldering iron, it was difficult to get the
bottom one firmly resoldered on....I wanted to briefly turn the car
upside down so that gravity would work for instead of against me....

-matt
'85 euro 308 with working headlights again...

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:54 PM, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>  That kind of problem is usually caused by a missing detent ball - one of
>  those 10 cent parts needing a few hundred $'s in labor to install ;-)
>
>  Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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