BJ8 Dash install tool?

[spaced]

Greetings,
I am installing a new interior in my 64 BJ8. In the middle section of the dash there is a plate which holds 4 switches (lights, overdrive etc.) they are installed from the bach and held on to the dash by a chrome ring that is threaded on from the front. This ring has 2 notches in it allowing it to be turned and tightened.
Q. Is there a tool available that fits over the switches allowing the ring to be tightened down to the dash? If so where can I find it?. This is the second time I've had to recover the dash due to a slip of the screwdriver I was using and this piece is a bugger to R&R
Thanks

 

[JamesWilson]

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.... switches (lights, overdrive etc.) they are installed from the bach and held on to the dash by a chrome ring that is threaded on from the front. This ring has 2 notches in it allowing it to be turned and tightened.
Q. Is there a tool available that fits over the switches allowing the ring to be tightened down to the dash?

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The ring is called a "bezel". I've never seen a tool for this particular job but a plastic picnic knife can do the job too as I found out when more suitable tools weren't to hand....

 

[GregW]

Not the best tool, but it works, are e-ring pliers.

 

[John Loftus]

British Car Specialist has a Lucas Switch Tool on page 36 (my catalog is somewhat old so look in the Tool section if you can't find it)

www.britishcarspecialists.com


Cheers,
John

 

[Keoke]

HI Spaced, yes there is such a tool. However, you can make one if you have an old socket about the same diameter as the Bezel that you don't need, you can grind the little tips into it and it will work just fine.---Keoke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif

 

[John Kuzman]

Seems to me that I bought a special socket from this gentleman a few years back when I was restoring my BJ7 dash.

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