One step forward 2 steps backwards at the moment with the Dolomite. I really need her back on the road ready for the house move, but she's fighting me all the way!
I faced a bit of a dilemma with the ignition switch issues, I have a couple of later spare units, but they are "3mm connector loom" parts. Being an early(ish) car Binny has the molded 4.5mm pin loom connectors.
Of course I could cut the connector off the original switch and splice it onto the new one (or even get a 3mm pin socket and make a short adapter loom) OR de-solder the pins at the switch and solder on the old loom. Neither option would be totally satisfying to me.
The early switches with 4.5mm pin loom seem pretty rare, but Mick Dolphin came through with one for me!
I fought for a while trying to feed the loom back down the steering column with it in place, but it's just too tight (I managed to pull the old one out and drag a line through to try and pull the new one back - too tight though!)
So I pulled the steering column out. Frankly I wish I'd done that in the first place as it was an easy job getting it out and makes changing the switch a piece of cake.
Sadly (now the 2 steps back) on removing the loom cover that fits under the steering I found the lighting loom badly melted. I'm surprised it didn't cause a short/fire!
Again, being a 4.5mm pin loom connector... I can't just make up a replacement loom for this, which has left me chasing a replacement. Mick Dolphin doesn't have one, but Fitchetts do, so now I'm waiting for that to come before I re-fit everything.
It's a shame there's no compatible replacements for the 4.5mm pin connectors - if there was I could have solved all this a lot quicker/easier.