240Z: Headlight switch rebuild pt. 1, Bodyshop work on rear quarters started.

Today i spent a wile rebuilding / refurbishing the headlight switches. The problem with the Original wiring design is that the full headlight current runs through the steering wheel multifunctional switches. This causes contacts tu burn, specially when upgraded to H4 headlights. I decided to refurbish them before putting it back on the steering column.
In future i will run a relay, because the original design is not very long-lasting, nor is it very safe to have 20 amps in your hands when switching on the lights 😛
Started with choosing the best of all four switches i had (one beeing a later model or something different):

Disassembled everything following This great manual:
https://www.doyouevenhoon.com/datsun-240z-gtr/how-to-rebuild-datsun-240z-headlight-switch.html and ended up like this:

Removed the old contacts and as you can see they’re pretty urnt and carbonized:

Used some “relay contacts cleaner” Fluid and after a bit of rubbing looked like this. Also but the switches back in reverse orders to make sure the “weak” part will be on the opposite side and last longer 😉

Will continue with the rest of the switch next week. need to buy smaller pliers first 😀 In the meanwhile i got an update from the bodyshop. Before:

after:

Now work on the passenger side floorpan and rear quarter as well as the small storage compartment started. More rust than expected. but yeah. t hat’s how life is 🙂

Also ordered ordered the rear lower valance and rear corner valance so basically i will have an almost new chassis at the end *lol*. more updates soon i hope 😉