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Title: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: steve6367 on 01 August 2016, 20:18:20: So my lights were doing strange things, I've popped it off and cleaned with contact cleaner. All looks good now, before I started it was all smothered in grease. Should I put some back? What type?

Steve
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: Andy B on 01 August 2016, 20:42:03: I'd put silicone grease back in
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: frostbite on 02 August 2016, 10:00:19: +1 I cleaned mine out and never repacked it. I have since noticed the ac leaks on it or very close to it so a job that needs doing

Im going to maplin for dielectic grease
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 02 August 2016, 10:06:25: Is vaseline/petroleum jelly as good/substitute?
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: steve6367 on 02 August 2016, 10:58:04: Thank you all, I used a small amount of Keenol as its what I has at 8pm in the rain when I realised the car was stopping my closing the garage door :-[

It's not fixed the problem, but if it stops raining today I will check the adjustment again.

If not its new switch time I guess, are they VX only?
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 02 August 2016, 11:06:48: Surely a known good one is perfectly fine. There's any number of AR25s in people's back yards, having been replaced for AR35s... all perfectly serviceable, no doubt? Can imagine a new switch being a fair few pennies
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: steve6367 on 02 August 2016, 23:01:11: So cleaning the selector made it worse, so I thought I know I'll pull the one off the 2.2 which is currently off the road. That does not work either, did so fine when tested before removal.

Any thoughts? I shall pop the original from the 2.5 into the 2.2 AM to see east happens, but I'm meant to be driving to Exmore tomorrow.

3 Omegas and not one actually bloody working!

Any thoughts really appreciated :y
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: steve6367 on 03 August 2016, 08:31:33: Quote from: steve6367 on 02 August 2016, 23:01:11
So cleaning the selector made it worse, so I thought I know I'll pull the one off the 2.2 which is currently off the road. That does not work either, did so fine when tested before removal.

Any thoughts? I shall pop the original from the 2.5 into the 2.2 AM to see east happens, but I'm meant to be driving to Exmore tomorrow.

3 Omegas and not one actually bloody working!

Any thoughts really appreciated :y

Photo of inside the unit removed from the 2.5:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/td1hp97gys4zo1d/2016-08-02%2022.35.11.jpg?dl=0
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: steve6367 on 03 August 2016, 09:46:56: All ok this morning in every position when cold, drive around the block and other than D & N all the other positions switch all of the lights on.

Can the box itself cause these issues? Or ECU? Or does it have to be the selector switch?
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: frostbite on 03 August 2016, 10:57:56: Try and run it with no grease in at all also try and use an electrical contact cleaner
Title: Re: Cleaning gear selector switch - grease?
Post by: biggriffin on 03 August 2016, 21:03:36: There's a guide in the relevant section. Use silicone grease from Maplin, or as it use to be called switch grease.