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Wanted Wanted: 1990 Dash Headlight Switch

Looking for a fully functioning dash headlight switch.
You mean fog light switch? Headlights are on the stalk. I was able to buy a new fog light switch about a year age, made by Standard Motor products. Rock Auto I believe, though Summit Racing was also listing them. Not cheap; around $90 I believe. It works great. I’m having troube with my popup switch and the rear wiper/washer switch, and every used replacement I’ve obtained seems equally non-functional. Just FYI.
Good luck-
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Thanks, but in this case, it's the pop-up switch for the headlights, the one that puts them up or down without turning them on, not the fog light switch.
For whatever reason when you turn the headlights on, the power from the stalk is routed from the relay through the pop-up switch to the relay under the hood to activate the headlight motors. Something's not right with the switch itself or the contacts, and the motors for the headlights don't activate when the headlights are turned on, nor will they pop up when the switch is pushed. By-passing the relays activates the motors just fine.
You are correct: the fog light switch is available on Rock Auto, but not the pop-up switch for the headlights, unless I'm just not looking in the right places. And the manual shows the fog light switch internals are not the same as the headlight pop-up switch.
1990TSIAWDTALON
1990TSIAWDTALON
You can take that switch apart but you have to be super careful and watch where the little metal ball goes. Most of the time they have a broken tab that holds the button in. You can remove that and push the button in and PULL it back out to turn it off. I've had to fix some of my 90 stuff.
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