Idiot check on wiper switch install

[gogmorgo]

So those who’ve done it know I’ve been reasonably deep into the steering column. During disassembly I had a copper.. cylinder thing come out. 

 

Can’t for the life of me figure out where from. Other than maybe a horn contact button for the turn signal switch that got left in there during a previous repair maybe? The back is hollow like a spring or another pin would go inside it. 

 

I know I had an interesting time correcting some mistakes someone else made in there a while back, the whole horn cam was missing from the truck when I bought it. But it’s pushing ten years since I was in there to remember what all was missing. I’ve pulled far too many machines apart in between for that… And even if I stuff it all back together and everything works, this is going to bug me. 
 

And more because I want to b*@ch about it than anything else. This steering column is dumb. The wiper switch worked just fine as a wiper switch. I only had to change it out because my high beams didn’t want to switch. Because the plastic wiper switch body cracked and couldn’t get quite enough movement out of the other little plastic bit that pushes on the rod that actuates the dimmer switch.

Mechanical linkages to actuate electrical components is just so 1960’s. 
 

Also if anyone knows a source for new linkage parts I’d be interested. The plastic bit between the wiper switch and dimmer switch rod has a pretty deep groove worn into the end of it, and of course there would never be another one included with the wiper switch. 

[jdog]

I would say that is that button that fell out of a previous repair

[gogmorgo]

Well I put it back together and everything is working alright, got about 100 miles on it. But that high beam stalk still isn’t quite as snappy as the one in my other MJ, still has some mush to the movement. Oh well, at least it switches reliably now. 
 

But I did some recollecting and went for a deep dive. And as always, CC to the rescue, courtesy of nine-years-and-eleven-months-ago-me. That pin was in fact missing. 

Makes me want to do a better job of documenting the rest of my repairs. Can’t think I ever would have imagined back then that I’d be looking back at that thread for my own benefit ten years later.

Also holy crap I’ve had this truck a long time.