FV 432 repairs

[Gunner]

Hello to our stalwart (pun fully intended) FV experts in the UK:

The latest work on the FV 432 involves repairing or replacing the headlight dipper switch. We attempted to remove ours, which is not working (won't move up or down and we don't know which position its stuck in) and discovered that, with incredible body contortions, the bracket and switch can be seperated from the floor after removing an endless number of small nuts and bolts, only to find that the wiring doesn't have any kind of quick disconnects... it simply runs under the floor boards and disappears into the bilges somewhere.

HELP!

By the way; does anyone know why the turn signals and brake lights do not work when the gear shift is in neutral? That one drove us near around the twist when we were doing a first parade with the engine running and the FV 432 in neutral all the lights stopped working... put it in gear and everything was OK. We found an obscure line in the operators manual explaining this odd phenonomen but no explanation of why.

Cheers! Mike