1995 Chevrolet Suburban C2500 with Cruise Control with Tilt Steering Windshield Wiper Switch TRQ SWA41751

Let's remove the negative battery terminal using an eight-millimeter wrench, set this aside so we cannot contact that battery terminal. So next we're just going to turn the steering wheel. We're going to have this so it's just like that. At this point, if you were to look at the backside, you're going to see two holes, and inside those holes, there's going to be a little piton, there you're going to want to push on. So, I just take my pick. I'm going to push right in the center, and I'm going to pull out on the airbag a little bit. And I'll do the same to the other one. Okay. It came out. And then, I'll do the other side real quick again just in case. Okay. That feels good. We'll do the same to the lower ones. There we go. Carefully pull this away. Now, we're going to disconnect the airbag. This orange thing right here is a lock. First, I'll slide it out where it's held in. And we're just going to grab that orange piece, pull that out. Now, we'll just press it on this tab and we should be able to separate these two pieces. Carefully set your bag aside. Get that wire out of the way. Now, we're going to remove this nut.

Now, the next thing you want to do is pay special attention to make sure that your steering shaft is marked and the steering wheel area is marked. So they line up. If they aren't, just go ahead and make some sort of mark that'll make it so you can remember, because you don't want to put your steering wheel on crisscross. At this point, usually, you can strike it around. And sometimes it comes off that easy. Other times, what you might have to do is put a bolt through right there and there and just kind of keep driving them in and it'll press up against this area there, and draw the steering wheel away. So now we're going to use a T25. It's a torques bit driver. And if you were to look underneath your steering column, you're going to see two large holes. There's going to be two screws, remove both of them. The next thing you're going to have to remove is this right here. To do that, just pull it straight out. And we can grab onto this. You want to push towards the dash to unhook the clips there in the back. And then, of course, draw towards you to remove it completely. There's those hooks that I was talking about.

Next, we're going to use an inverted torques E5. We're going to loosen this right here, and that's going to relieve this upper plastic. You should be able to lift up, okay. That came pretty nice. It's coming along great. Awesome. But we're going to have to do it next is we're going to be coming from underneath this plastic. We're going to find a little hole and I'll show you in a second. We're going to take this pick and we're going to press down. Once you press this down, you can turn it backwards a little bit and slide the unit out. So right now my plastics already off. And that's just basically for the camera. But essentially you just lift it up so you can get under. Now, just kind of get it out of the way. And then, here's that hole that I was talking about. So imagine I'm lifting up that plastic. I find my hole. Okay? I'm going to take my ignition. I'm going to turn it so it's in the cranked position and that's lining this slot up with the hole. I'm going to press down. And then, I'm going to turn this counterclockwise. And then, I'm going to turn this back a little bit and pull this out. Let's try again. Crank it, push this in, twist, and pull. So now, you should be able to get this plastic cover right out of the way. We'll set that aside.

Now, if you were to look right up along the top here, you're going to see a T25 screw. And then, also if you were to look from the steering wheel side, straight in, you're going to see another T25 right there. We're going to remove both of those. Set that aside. We'll grab onto this, lift it up. Now, we're going to have the electrical wires that we're going to disconnect. We'll just spin it around so we can take a look. So now we're just going to grab on this yellow wire right here. This is the one for the airbag and pull this down, just hold on by a push clip. Remove the lock, press that tab, and separate the two. Now, we're going to move along to this unit right here.

So now, right near those wires, you're going to see a little bolt that holds this unit to a bracket. Use a seven-millimeter with an extension and remove it. There it is. Lift up on this, and then we can pull it down a little bit. Let's see. It's going to get it off that upper bracket. Awesome. So now if you look right inside here, let's see if I can move these wires. You can see there's a little screw. We're going to unscrew that screw. There we are. So now you're going to notice that you have a couple other ground wires that run up along the top. We'll take a better look at those. Now, we're going to remove this panel right here. You're going to see four, seven-millimeter screws, remove them. Let's go ahead and pull this off of here. Okay. This hose right here just pops right off. And now, we'll just kind of hang this off to the side.

So now I'm going to use this nice curved pick. And this outer portion of the wires right there and then this gray portion, outer portion of the wire of the pieces that we need. To get those out, they actually pulled down and away from the rest of the wiring harness. But there's going to be a couple little clips, so that's the reason why I'm going to use this. I go right in between this gap right there. Give it a little twist, and then pull down. And that separates. Do the same to the other one. That's great. Now, if you have a wire tie that's holding everything together, obviously, you're going to want to trim that off. And then, once you've done that, we'll draw this out. So now, we'll just carefully pull this out of here. Looks like I've got a little bit of electrical tape holding some stuff together so I'll just get that off there real quick. All right, so there's a little green clip that's holding these two wires to this right here. So once you get the locking clip out, we're going to push on the tab and then draw the wires. Now, if you follow those two wires it goes right to this unit right there. We're just going to push on this little tab and then twist. Try again. And it comes right out.

Now, we can grab this and remove the multifunction switch. Let's get ready for an install. We double-check to make sure we have the same connectors which is very important. This looks great. Here we go. Take those wires, go right along the driver side of the steering column there. And then, just bring it all the way down and let it hang down at the bottom. We'll deal with that in a minute. So now, if you look at your wiring harnesses, we have the big one and then, we have of course the two that we brought down there. The gray is going to go next to the side that has the yellow wire on it. Take your gray unit. Just kind of bring it right up along and then through the groove and listen for a click. There it is. Give it a nice push. Make sure it's locked in. Do the same thing to the black except on the other side. Make sure those wires aren't getting pinched. Slide that black one up in there. It should lock right in. That feels great. Okay. This looks good. Let's move along.

Get those wires up and over the steering column. There we go. Back connector up, give it a nice tug. That feels great. So we'll just lift this up, slide it into its little bracket. And then, of course, pull it down so the whole lines up. Okay. Once you have everything lined up, go ahead and put in your little screw. Okay. It's nice and tight, give it a wiggle. That feels perfect. Let's reconnect this back in. And then, of course, make sure you put your lock. Awesome. Make sure you resecure it. And then, of course, tuck the wires up so there's no way they can get caught on anything. Make sure you put your lock back in. I can reach it. Let's get this plastic back on here. Make sure you connect in your vent hose, super important. Just line everything up, a couple loving bonks. Just get it situated. And now, we'll use our four screws and mounted it in securely. So let's mount this in now. It should just slide right in. We've got our top hole. Make sure you start both screws in before you tighten either of them down. This one is a little harder to get to. Okay. That's nice and snug. Do this one as well. Perfect. It doesn't move around. It's nice and secure. Let's get this cover on there. Let's bring it down and under. Pay attention to this rubber right there. See if we can get it to sit in the groove. Let's slide this down over this. Okay. This is looking pretty good.

Let's get the ignition cylinder in. Give it a nice tug, make sure it does not come out. Perfect. Hold that down. I'm just going to screw this in. Remember, you're just screwing into plastic, so you don't necessarily want to go too tight, just bottom it out. And then, give it a wiggle. That feels great. Now, it's time to get the lower part on. Remember those hooks. When we go in, we need to go an extra far, bring it up and then slide it forward and lock it in. So it could come off on the outside of that. Going extra far like I said, bring it up. And then...oh, come on. There it is. Lock those in. All right. Let's put in our screws. Now, we're going to put this up. Give it a nice push, make sure it functions perfectly. Now, it's going to be time to get the steering wheel back on here. You just want to pay attention to this yellow wire. We're going to put it right through this slot in the steering wheel. Draw it right on through. Then we're going to line up the steering wheel. As you push and twist you'll notice it'll finally set in and everything should line up with the marks that are already on there. If you don't have it lined up, it just really won't push in until it does.

So, we'll just kind of give it a nice little push. That feels good. Now, we're going to use our 21-millimeter nut. We'll snug it up and then we'll torque it to 29-foot pounds. Let's torque this to 29-foot pounds. Perfect. Let's get this wire right here. Now, we've got our airbag. I want to make sure you connect it in, and then we have the orange lock. Heard the click, give it a nice tug. Take your lock, slide it right in. You want to make sure that this is secured up and over the top of that, slide just like that. And we're going to take these. You want your four prongs to line up with your four holes. Before we go any further, just double-check to make sure that you have this inside there. This is for the horn. And if you don't have it in there, it's not going to work. Carefully line those up. Okay. Now, I'm just going to push it in. Awesome.

So now, we'll carefully connect our negative battery terminal here. Check it make sure it's nice and snug. Now, let's go try to start the vehicle. So let's test it. Test that four way. Awesome. Four way is good. Left. Right, and of course turn on the headlights, high beam. I can see that they're turning on and off right there. That's great. One last thing, horn. Perfect.

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In this video we're going to be working with our 1996 GMC Sierra K1500. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's multifunction switch, which runs the wipers, high beams, and turn signals.

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Here are the items you'll need of this repair: 7 to 21mm socket, ratchet, socket extension, 8mm wrench, breaker bar, torque wrench, T25 Torx socket, E5 inverted Torx, flat head screwdriver, steering wheel puller, side cutters, snap ring pliers, 90 pick tool, zip ties

Remove the negative post from your battery using a 5/16s or an eight millimeter wrench. Be very careful, this wrench isn't long enough but if you have a longer one, you may be able to hit the positive battery terminal with it. You want to be very careful you don't do that. Remove the terminal and isolate it from the battery.

Now just so you can see, because it's pretty difficult to show on the back of the steering wheel, there are these notched pins, all four of them on the airbag and these sit in these four holes. What I did to release them is there's openings in the back you can reach through, the flat blade screwdriver and pry them up and out of the way. Pretty difficult to get back there and see that, but you just need to reach in there and pry it out of the way with your screwdriver and it'll pop itself up. Remove the airbag.

There's a little hook on the harness, you need to disconnect to get this out all the way. Remove the orange safety. You may need a screwdriver to release the electrical connector here. Put your seatbelt through the steering wheel. This will help to hold it while you break the 21-millimeter bolt in the center loose. Release your seatbelt and remove it from the wheel. Make sure that the steering wheel is nice and straight and flat. Finish removing the 21-millimeter nut and wiggle the wheel or hit the back sides.

Now if you can't just knock the steering wheel off by hand, you can use a steering wheel polar. This is actually kind of a universal polar. These are available from 1AAuto.com, the same one we have here and it comes with a variety of bolts so pick the ones that fit your vehicle.

Go ahead and thread them all the way and you can just do this by hand, because they'll bottom out in there. If you try to get them much tighter than that, you could risk damaging something underneath. Once those are in, install the center bolt, tighten that down until it bottoms out on the center bolt of the steering wheel. I'm going to try to keep this straight using a 19 millimeter socket and ratchet and holding the wheel straight, tighten down the center bolt. Once it comes free, the wheels should come off pretty easily. Carefully remove the steering wheel. Slide the wire for the airbag clock spring through it.

Remove the snap ring on the clock spring with a pair of snap ring pliers. Simply put the tips of the pliers into the openings on the snap ring. Spread the snap ring and lift it up out of its grooves. Slide the snap ring off. If you have a tilt steering column, make sure that it is tilted all the way up. Grab the lever firmly. Pull that out. Remove the two T25 Torx on the bottom of your steering column cover. Pull down to separate your column, and then push in and pull out to release these hooks in the back.

Now there are two of these inverted T5 Torx that you need, an E5 inverted Torx socket to remove. However, if you have a 6.4 millimeter that's on there pretty snug and as long as you go careful, you should be able to spin them right out. Reinstall the lever for your tilt column if equipped. Push down and remove the lever again, so you don't bump it. It's hard to show and we'll show you when the piece is removed, but there's a small hole in the top of the ignition cylinder that you can get with a hooked pick.

I'm looking through the hole for the hazard switch to see this. What you need to do is push down on that. You want to hold your key like you're trying to start it and then push down on that little hole. You'll feel it released. Slide it out as far as it will go and turn it back some. Remove it fully so you can remove your steering column upper cover.

Now just to give you a better idea of what we were doing with that cover on top and yours will be right here blocking your view but you can look through, reach in to this whole. Key to the start position, push down, pull out, remove your pick, rotate backwards, remove your cylinder.

Remove the four 7 mm screws along the bottom knee panel of the dashboard with a 7mm socket and ratchet. We have some, it looks like, wood screws and some little machine screws that have been put in here. It looks like they might be for an old break controller for the trailer or something like that. I may have to remove these, but they shouldn't be there on your vehicle.

Now all along the top of the knee panel and the dash there are some plastic clips, so we just have to pop those out. Pull out your e-brake release handle as far as you can, and use a small flat-blade screwdriver to compress the tabs. There's one on each side. We're not going to be able to show you the one on the inside of the panel, just because of the way the dash is shaped, but it's on the opposite side of this clip. Then you should be able to turn the e-brake and slide the cable out to remove your knee panel.

Remove the four 10mm bolts holding the metal knee panel to the dash with a 10mm socket and ratchet. Remove the metal knee panel from the dash. I'm just going to remove this dash vent so I can see a little bit better. Remove the two T25 Torx screws from your combination switch or multifunction switch with a T25 Torx socket and ratchet, and one at the front on the bottom left corner. Careful not to hit or damage your airbag clock spring while you're at it. Peel open the wrap around the harness. This is kind of just like a really wide electrical tape. You can just peel that off.

Go through the opening in the dash that the center vent was and remove the 7mm bolt in the middle of the ignition switch harness. On the side of the connector to the ignition switch, your multifunction switch is another 7mm screw you'll need to remove. Once that's out, you can slide that connector up and remove the harness. At the front of the switch on this side of the connector, pry up and slide the side connectors out of the main connector.

If you follow the rod from your gear selector, you'll find a little connector up here. Push this down with a small flat-blade screwdriver and remove it, as this ties into our multifunction switch, along with your two connectors we've removed from the ignition. Once the safety tab is out, push down with a small flat-blade screwdriver and remove the connector.

Now feed the two wires and the connector over the top of the steering column and pull it down with the rest of your wiring harness. You can now slide the harness out of the dash and remove your multifunction switch from the vehicle.

There's nothing wrong with our old multifunction switch, so we're just going to reinstall it, but the process would be exactly the same if you were installing your new part from 1A Auto.

Simply send the wiring harness back down in the column. Be careful not to jam or catch it on anything. We'll put our switch back into place. Be sure that you line everything up nicely. Install your new switch onto the column. It'll drop down into place when you have it aligned properly, and reinstall the two T25 Torx screws with your T25 Torx socket, ratchet, and a little extension.

Send the little two wire electrical connector back over the column, plug it back into its switch. Don't forget to reengage the green safety tab once it's in. Slide the multifunction switch harnesses back into their slots until they lock in on the ignition switch harness. Then push back up on the receptacle and set the connector back into place. This should go in at least partially.

Slide the receptacle back down into its bracket and tighten our screw back up with our 7mm socket and ratchet. Don't forget the 7mm screw on the side of the plug receptacle. Resecure all of the harnesses and the sheathing here, and then we'll throw a few zip ties back on there where we cut them out from at the top and bottom.

Reattach your vent. Reinstall the steel support for the knee panel and the four 10 mm screws. Tighten down the bolts with the 10mm socket and ratchet. Pull your e-brake cable back through the opening and twist it, it'll lock it back into place. Line up your clips, these ones on the dash vent you should pop in first. Once the clips are in, reinstall all four of the 7mm screws. Pop your e-brake release handle back into place.

Reinstall the upper half of your steering column cover. Be sure to line up this little rubber boot for your gear selector lever. Just line up the channels and slide it in there. This is the detent that we had to hit on the ignition cylinder. Slide that back in. Make sure your key isn't all the way before you start doing this. Slide it all the way in, turn it forward and back to make sure it engages.

Reinstall your tilt lever. Place one hand firmly on top of the steering column. Release the lever and slowly allow it to go up. One thing you don't want to do, and I'm just going to do this for demonstration purposes, is just release the lever because that thing really moves. If this isn't aligned, well your shift is not in the right place, you've left a tool in there or even worse if your fingers were in here for some reason, that's going to do some damage. Make sure you let it go up slowly so you can reinstall your lower cover.

Reinstall your two E5 inverted Torx screws into the upper steering column cover. Remove the tilt latch rod again and now these hooks need to slide in and under and then pull forward to engage. Line up the lower boot for your gear selector after you've set the hooks in the back of your column cover. Snap everything back into place. Once it's lined up, reinstall your to two T25 Torx screws on the bottom of the column.

Reinstall your tilt lever. Carefully reinstall the harness for your clock spring and then pull the alignment pin out of your new part.

Reinstall your wheel onto the splines. Now one of the cool things about these wheels is they have a keyed spline so you can see I can't get it on and then it lines up and falls right in. Install the 21-millimeter nut as tight as you can toward the steering wheel nut to 29-foot pounds.

Make sure to attach the harness back into its clips as well as the one on the airbag, but we'll reconnect our connector and install our safety tab first. Slide the bag into place and just push it in firmly to engage all four clips. Now the most important step anytime you work on your airbags or anything that has to do with the airbag system, just put your key in, turn it to the run position, then reconnect your negative battery terminal. Remember to tighten this down with a 5/16s wrench. Now the reason we do this in the order that we did is power just came back on in the vehicle and our key is already on.

If anything bad had happened with the airbag like it shaved wire or some other issue, the bag would have deployed now while we're out here safely under the hood, rather than once we get the vehicle and turn the key and we're sitting right in front of it. While airbags are meant as a safety device in improper conditions, they can be very dangerous.

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Part two of two, replacing the multi-function switch on this '99 Suburban, same as basically, any '95 to 2000 truck or heavy duty truck and '95 to '99 SUV. We'll be covering the installation. If you want to see the removal, just check out other videos. A quick look at the tools you'll need, various millimeter wrenches, flat blade screwdriver and a Torx bit.

Okay. Here we are. Here's our original switch, a new switch from 1A Auto. Obviously, it's got this little mesh on here. You see everything is the same, it's going to bolt up all the same. One thing, they did try and do is you can see on our original here, it would appear that you had a bigger harness for that break switch. Actually, I'm just going to pull it out and you can see we got plenty of harness on this switch. I'm going to feed the switch down through. I'm going to actually, roughly bolt this on first, just so I have it right, make sure I have stuff on the right place. Start my upper screw and start my lower screw. I'm going to take my harness, I'm going to feed it along with the other one and see if I can get this conduit back to where it should be. This control wire, you try to find a place. Harness and push in. Got on the other side, take it, push it in so that's all together now.

It's always good to try and put things back together the way they came apart because the factory hasn't had an idea what they were doing, keep were rubbing together, wires were getting chafed or whatever. I'll take my cruise control wire and I'm going to go in front of this. Pull this bar here, push it over. Grab hold of it on the other side of the cone, like push and pull harness stuff and over. Plug in. I have my lock and I'm going to reach up in behind and before I take care of this, I'll video it. Put into place. Now, up underneath here, I'm going to try to take my connector. I'm just kind of working my connector right in to the other end. Now, I'll tighten up that bolt and then bolt it back on to the bracket.

I've bolted my connector back in and I bolted the connector on to the bracket to keep it steady. We've connected the battery and what I'm going to do is do a quick test here, first is the emergency lights. How is it been working. Let me see how this works, the way it works. The watches are working. Okay. High beam. Okay. The one thing I can't really test is the cruise control. First, I'm going to take a couple wire ties and kind of restore this back to the way it was, all wired tied together. This tube up in here first. Make sure that's on well. A 10mm screw, make sure this one goes up into the right spot. The bottom, it kind of goes in and there's two hooks. One of them broken off on this. You kind of go in and make sure it hooks underneath, and make sure the shifts are bolted on there, correctly. That two T25 screws from the bottom here.

I'm going to take this, connects at a dock and then you got basically little pin here that go into slots. A four 7mm screws. Before we put the steering on, we're just going to put the tilt lever back in, pushes right in like that. There's a really small mark, I'm not sure you can see it or not, on the steering column, because you want to line up that arrow with the mark to get wheel straight. It's a whole lot easier to take it off, you just bolt it on, 21mm socket. Take your horn button and you have a little clips on it. Basically, just want to push it in and get it to stay. Now, your airbag, easy enough, clip it on, lock it. Before we connect the battery, we put the fuse back in for the airbag. Put the panel back on. There you go. Now, we'll connect the battery, make sure the horn works. Take it for a test drive, make sure the cruise works and everything is all set.

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