87 Both headlights won't close
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87 Both headlights won't close
I had a new CD radio installed in my 87 today. When I picked it up the headlights were off but still flipped up. When I tried to turn the headlights on the **** came off in my hand (Just the **** not the shaft) so I put it back on and carefully pulled the headlight switch out and back in a couple times but the headlight still didn't close. I tried manually cranking them closed about half way from under the hood and when I turned the headlights on they opened the rest of the way but still would not close. They said that they didn't take the instrument cluster bezel off but when I was driving it home I could see that it wasn't aligned with the gauges. I had a problem a couple years ago with one headlight not closing due to a blown fusible link behind the battery but since then they have worked flawlessly. Any ideas on what the problem could be ?
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Please ask them how they were able to remove the center dash panel without removing the gauge panel. 
I wonder why the headlight switch **** came off in your hand.
Did they break that, too.
You may want to check that fusible link again. Here is diagnosis from my 86 FSM.
http://members.shaw.ca/dankai/Headlight%20Doors.pdf
I wonder why the headlight switch **** came off in your hand.
Did they break that, too.You may want to check that fusible link again. Here is diagnosis from my 86 FSM.
http://members.shaw.ca/dankai/Headlight%20Doors.pdf
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I never had any trouble with the **** itself and when it came off in my hand the clip was still on the shaft going into the headlight switch. Is it possible that they pulled on the headlight **** too hard and broke something inside the switch ? or could the have shorted something in the dash causing the module or the fusible links to fry ?
