high beams on all the time-replacing indicator cluster
 

I picked up a new left side indicator cluster(turn signal, high beam etc...)

aside from opening up the steering columm-how hard is it to remove the old one and access the wiring harness that I need to unclip and then re-instal on the new one? The harness on the new part is pretty long and big! so I'm a bit concerned as to if I will be able to access the plug needed to remove and install the new one!

Search is your friend.

Remove steering wheel.
Don't have to, but suggest remove front seat.
Cut old harness.
Install one wire at a time.
Long nose pliers helpful.
Disconnect battery before you start.
Not brain surgery.

Mine (87) was easy. Took an hour without any instructions. Remove steering wheel, plastic shroud around column, and then the assembly. Follow the wires under the dash, and replace one at a time with the new ones.

Oh, and unplug the battery. It will be funny if you complete the horn button ground by standing outstide the car and touching the wire at the same time. You'll get shocked and honk the horn simultaneously. Ask me how I know....

On my 84 the cluster of wires ran to the back of the headlight switch. I ended up removing the headlight switch from the dash and replacing the wires one by one. It's not difficult, just time consuming.

In contrast to Old Tee, mine did not require any cutting. It was simply "plug and play."

Good luck! SmileWavy

The new part has a plug on the end I thought-so I was thinking that it would be possible to plug and play?-but either I didn't look at the part all that carefully, or you guys are saying that it's not possible to reach the plug?

disfin,

very funny on the horn comment! had me chuckling, I can picture myself doing that maybe three times in a row before realizing why the horn was going off as I got shocked...

When I replaced mine, I just carefully swaped the cables that plug in the wall. For the separate wires on the headlight switch, I replaced them one at a time. No cutting was needed.

Not sure what year your car is (no signature, hint hint), but mine was all plug and play. I did not cut anything.

I actually just fixed this myself without replacing it. There are contact tabs inside the module that just needs to be bent back in order to work properly again. Can't tell you which ones, but once you have the thing all exposed, you can just look at it, move the light switch from low to high beam and figure out which ones need bending back.

I didn't need to cut anything when I replaced the indicator switch on my '86. It's a tight squeeze but the connector fit through.
-Chris

I did what yelcab1 did and it fixed it.... $0 been going for 3+ years now