The El Camino turn signal stalk broke again. The stalk is the turn signal, windshield wiper, squirters, and wiper delay, and the cruise control lever. It of course has a cable from the top of the steering column down the column to the multi-connector. They were smart enough to put a little hole on the connector itself so I can use some safety wire or hobby wire, to poke through the hole, and up the column as I pull the old wire out. Then tie on the new connector and its wire, and pull it back down the column. That is the theory. The workshop manual makes it sound easy. So the old one came out fairly easy, and I tied on the new one to the wire, and started puling from the bottom and pushing the wire from the top. The dang wire snapped inside the column.
Cussing for sure helps in that situation and I had some medicinal profanity to utter. Kinda like a spell. I got out my borescope and started peering up inside the column. There was the end, about three inches up inside the column. Of course there is no real room to maneuver and I had my iPhone used for the display. I had it propped up and could see that, but poking the scope around inside the tunnel while it was looking back up the column makes getting oriented a challenge. I finally found it, and managed to get some needle nose pliers on it and wiggled the wire down to get some bigger pliers on it, and pulled it down. Crisis averted. Phew.