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Adding a switch for a garage door opener to the Cooper MINI.
Some images are from reassembly.

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Decomposition.

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Removing the cover beneath the steering wheel
The upper edge unclips, rotates down, and you remove it
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Then the vertical side parts come off
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This guy just pulls up and out
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Shifter knob pulls straight up and off
6 screws later...
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This is the PERFECT door for the garage door opener

The switch block.

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Unmolested
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The back side
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Inside the switch block.
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The interior PCB back.
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The interior PCB front.

Modifying the switch block.

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Inside the front of the switch block
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Test fitting the new switch.
Radio Shack part #275-1549A
SPDT Momentary switch
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Now I'm committed to finishing it.
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The new switch bolted in place.
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Fitting it all together.
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With the front two pieces snapped back together.
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The back of the front two pieces. (Confused yet?)
I drilled a hole ot the top of the switch block
for the wires.
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A little black tape just in case this switch does anything.
It is in the ASC/DSC location.

Back together at last..

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The panel re assembled.
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FIN.


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