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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The turn signal switch in my El Camino is cheap I know. Heck I have a spare one already. One side would not cancel and to get it out, pop off the steering which takes a special puller. Then I have to have a real mouse trap gizmo to depress the lock plate and get the nut off of it. Then I can get to the turn signal switch. One little spring had broken and all I did was use the spring from the new one on to old one and it was fixed. Then re-assemble. It is several hours of tedious work and a total pain in the butt to do. All to replace a tiny spring. A few years later the spring for the other side broke. Now it does not self cancel on that one side. I know just what to do, I just have not gotten motivated enough to do it. It is pretty easy to cancel the signal by hand. I will get it fixed soon.

To fully replace that switch is a lot more work.

There are 4 bolts that the factory did not torque properly on G body cars steering column. To get to them is a total all day chore. I fixed mine long ago and put them in with red lock-tight. I suspect all the GM G body cars on the road have had them fixed by now. It is real disconcerting to have the entire steering wheel move around like a dead fish. I always wondered how GM avoided a factory recall on it. It is very common in the G body cars.

Probably better than moving around like a live fish.