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Anonymous · 12-13-2003

We put it on a lift and replaced the back up switch (about $40 from GMparts direct.com). Luckily my buddy has a 91 ZR-1 too and had already replaced his so he knew the drill.The switch is up high on the left side of the tranny so its almost imposible to get a wrench on it. We used a piece of pipe to knock the end off the old switch (after testing the new switch to be sure it activated the b/u lights) this let us get a socket on it with a couple of swivels and about an 18inch extention.Pulled the old one (had to remove the clutch slave cylinder to get to it and found the dust boots in that to be loose, fixed them too). Then the fun started, had to use a pair of vice grips on a deep socket to get the switch back in.All this would have taken me all day but Jeff had done it before and using his lift we had it done in about 15 minutes! Its great to have friends with lifts and mechanical ability!

12-13-2003	#9
Anonymous Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 491	We put it on a lift and replaced the back up switch (about $40 from GMparts direct.com). Luckily my buddy has a 91 ZR-1 too and had already replaced his so he knew the drill.The switch is up high on the left side of the tranny so its almost imposible to get a wrench on it. We used a piece of pipe to knock the end off the old switch (after testing the new switch to be sure it activated the b/u lights) this let us get a socket on it with a couple of swivels and about an 18inch extention.Pulled the old one (had to remove the clutch slave cylinder to get to it and found the dust boots in that to be loose, fixed them too). Then the fun started, had to use a pair of vice grips on a deep socket to get the switch back in.All this would have taken me all day but Jeff had done it before and using his lift we had it done in about 15 minutes! Its great to have friends with lifts and mechanical ability!