door light switch wire 89 3.2 911

[deland1]

Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to recover the wire attached to the door light switch. It came off while unscrewing the switch.

[rcaradimos]

Use a stiff wire like a coat hanger, put a good v hook bend on the end and start fishing, a thin stiff wire would have better feel then the coat hanger.
Good luck, it worked for me, take your time and once you hook-up do not pull wire out of door jam to quick.
Bob

[JoeyD911]

I used a coat hanger wire with a very small hook bend at the end. You need to kind of bend the wire to get it all the way in there. You'll figure that out quick enough. I got mine out on the very first shot, shocked the hell out of me it was so easy! Just get the wire all the way to the floor board, that way you have less of a chance of just sweeping it out of the way.

Good Fishing

Hint: use shrink tube when you reattach so it can never happen again, till of course you get to the other side and mess with that 20 something year old wire

[rusnak]

I used some really thin wire that I bought years ago at Harbor Freight. I think safety wire might also work. This is so that I could angle around to hook the wire lost inside the door hinge post, then pull both wires together through the little threaded switch hole.

To prevent this in the future, you have to hold the black plastic plunger with one hand, while you simultaneously unscrew the switch base with the other. This will prevent the wire from getting twisted off of the swich and then lost inside the hinge post.

[B61]

Hello,
I had a similar problem when I was overhauling my oldtimer 1978 911sc.
- On on side I was able to recover the wire with tweezers.
- On the other side it was totally gone....
I removed the inner carpet in the front side, the front seat, then I removed the air hose going .
Putting your hand/fingers in the big airhose hole upwards you will first find a square hole towards the outside of the car and then just above it a round hole.
If you put a wire upwards in the door light switch hole than you will be able to fee it through the round hole and you can lead it first to the square hole and then through the hole of the airhose back up to the little hole to the luggage compartement.
Be sure to use a double isolated wire since the system is negative gronded.
Hope this helps.
Bruno - Bredene

[BrianS]

Just wanted to write a THANK YOU to this thread and to the larger Pelican Parts forum as a whole. I would be lost trying to unravel some of these weird things without this great resource.

BrianS