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Old 12-29-2012, 12:04 PM
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So I bought a 94 Jeep Cherokee for 400 dollars, it was having a no start after it was warmed up, well I fixed that with new cam and crankshaft position sensors. But the guy who had it before me needed to replace the key cylinder... well when he did that he decided taking apart the whole steering column was necessary, so now I'm stuck with that mess because now I have some extra parts and I'm missing one I think. I got it put together so that the Jeep will turn, the turn signals work, the hazards turn on, the windshield wipers work, everything works but the brights wont turn on, lever just flops back and forth, also the horn doesn't work (mainly cause I'm not sure how it is supposed to. I'm hoping to get this figured out by Monday because I need to get the safety inspection done, and the horn has to work for that. So if anyone has done this before can maybe tell me the order of parts that get put on or something that helped them that'd be great. There is no airbag, and it is standard transmission...
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http://www.chevyasylum.com/column/tiltcol.html

The piece you are missing is the hi beam actuator. You need to tear down the entire column to get it back in. Its a pita! I would hate to have to do it if i wasnt the one who took it apart=[.
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There's a rod that runs down the column to a switch that controls that.

I would just swap in a whole column. That'd take less than an hour.
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Thats the piece the rod fits on to.
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Hey thanks guys. I got the brights figured out. I saw the rod and the actuator and had no idea what either were for til I put them together. Still didn't figure out the horn but its all good I hooked up my own. Now tomorrow I can start actually driving it! Wooo
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Does anyone know what the light is on the dash that kind of looks like a little house (at least to me it seems that way). This is my first jeep, but I have never seen that symbol before, its the one to the left of the Washer fluid light. It almost acts as a shift light, but I have no idea.
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