96 Cherokee 4.0 and I'm about to first time clean out my neutral safety switch (no reverse lights and trouble starting recently). I've read a couple teks and I think I've got everything down, except when I refer to my FSM it talks about doing a whole switch 'realignment/adjustment' kind of thing as you put it back it, and the FSM is the only place I've seen this mentioned. So, my question is do I really have to do all the switch realigning steps the FSM talks about or can I just take it out, clean it up, reassemble, and put her back in?

Thanks for the help yall.

 

Also, can I use dielectric 'tune up' grease to lube everything back up with instead of regular dielectric grease? Shop was out of the regular stuff.

 

You need to adjust the final position of the nss for everything to work correctly. See the bottom of this write up:
http://bc4x4.com/tech/2010/jeep-neut...ty-switch-nss/

Permatex® Dielectric Tune-Up Grease looks like normal dielectric grease with a clever name.
http://www.permatex.com/products/aut...-Up_Grease.htm