who has done the steering wheel button fix?.....I need help
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who has done the steering wheel button fix?.....I need help
the rubber pins that i ans supposta remove are nothing but mush, they seam almost like peanut butter and they will not come out, i want to use the toothpick method but because i cant get even one pin out i dont know how long to make it, can anyone help me out?
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Originally Posted by driverjohn2005
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i did it on the 94 SSE and it was easy, after u detach them from the airbag, the buttons should just gently pry off from the main control then u just place the toothpick pieces in place and reassemble, it took maybe an hour to do it from start to finish
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Originally Posted by 94SSEgold
i did it on the 94 SSE and it was easy, after u detach them from the airbag, the buttons should just gently pry off from the main control then u just place the toothpick pieces in place and reassemble, it took maybe an hour to do it from start to finish
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Originally Posted by Peterg22000
Originally Posted by 94SSEgold
i did it on the 94 SSE and it was easy, after u detach them from the airbag, the buttons should just gently pry off from the main control then u just place the toothpick pieces in place and reassemble, it took maybe an hour to do it from start to finish
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Originally Posted by SSE14U24ME
Originally Posted by Peterg22000
Originally Posted by 94SSEgold
i did it on the 94 SSE and it was easy, after u detach them from the airbag, the buttons should just gently pry off from the main control then u just place the toothpick pieces in place and reassemble, it took maybe an hour to do it from start to finish
now ill i need to do is rip apart the stearing wheel take out the old buttons and put in the new ones, then its time to hook up the PAC-SWI (or what ever its called )
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I wonder if q tip is too thick in diameter.
Haro had the length.. I know why there'* a problem... The measurement was in inches.. Pete'* in Canada.. they use the metric system. Unlike our goofy country..they probably don't have both on a tape measure.
Haro had the length.. I know why there'* a problem... The measurement was in inches.. Pete'* in Canada.. they use the metric system. Unlike our goofy country..they probably don't have both on a tape measure.
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Originally Posted by BillBoost37
I wonder if q tip is too thick in diameter.
Haro had the length.. I know why there'* a problem... The measurement was in inches.. Pete'* in Canada.. they use the metric system. Unlike our goofy country..they probably don't have both on a tape measure.
Haro had the length.. I know why there'* a problem... The measurement was in inches.. Pete'* in Canada.. they use the metric system. Unlike our goofy country..they probably don't have both on a tape measure.
BTW my tape has both units of meassure on it
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Glad to hear that you found a solution. As far as I know, I was the 1st to come up with the idea of using toothpicks to replace the pins that had turned to goo. I though about using pieces of q-tips instead, but the paper ones I had were too wide, and the plastic ones were too thin.
By the way, if anyone'* interested, I recently had to replace some defective radio control switches on my '92 SSE */c, and to my surprise, the pins were solid plastic rather than the rubber pins that turned to goo on my '93 SSEi. I wasn't previously aware that GM had made rubber versions and plastic versions - my vote is for the plastic versions because they'll never turn to goo due to heat or age.
By the way, if anyone'* interested, I recently had to replace some defective radio control switches on my '92 SSE */c, and to my surprise, the pins were solid plastic rather than the rubber pins that turned to goo on my '93 SSEi. I wasn't previously aware that GM had made rubber versions and plastic versions - my vote is for the plastic versions because they'll never turn to goo due to heat or age.