Removing light and wiper switch stalk

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The Service Manual (which is available for download in PDF format - look for the Service Manuals section of this forum...) can walk you through it.

It's not horribly difficult if you have basic tools and have done some car interior work before. Roughly speaking (from memory! I could be missing something here), you're probably going to have to disconnect the battery (for airbag-related work, it's critical!), pull the plastic lower cover under the driver's side dash, the steering wheel airbag module, the steering wheel itself, then unscrew / unclip some of the plastic bits around the steering column behind the wheel, and then the big combo meters unit (MPH, RPM, etc) comes off the top as one big unit pretty easily, and *then* you can take off both stalks as one big assembly (you can only replace those as a unit, I'm sure your JDM one is the same).

As far as tools go, most of the job is just a #2 philips and a 10mm socket. A steering wheel puller can be helpful, but at least on my car I was able to just tap the center with a rubber mallet and it came right off by hand. The only other crazy part is the first two screws you remove on the steering wheel (to remove the airbag module from the front), they're those crazy Torx Security screws. It's a Torx head bolt with a pin sticking up in the middle. I don't recall the size for sure (and the manual doesn't say!) but I think it was either T27 or T30 -sized. Just get a set of Torx Security bits if you don't have one already.

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