[DeTomaso] Cigarette Lighter Remove/Replace - Asking for best way to do it

[Mike Drew]

Fred,

With an early style console like yours, you’ve got it easy. Everything is right there. 

Yes it’s secured from below by the threaded collar you identified. Notice in your pic that the threaded body of the base of the assembly is visible. Simply hold onto that with a firm grip or a pair of padded pliers while unthreading the collar above. Once you get it loose, it will then easily unthread the rest of the way, and you can remove the collar from below and the rest of it from above. 

Mike

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> On Apr 4, 2024, at 10:40, Fred Foreman <fred4man at att.net> wrote:
> 
>    The cig lighter on my car with the series 1, 2-piece, console stopped
>   working.  I never noticed it until my favorite passenger needed power
>   for her cell phone when traveling.  Pulled the rear of the console up
>   and I can see the bottom of the lighter but can't get it apart.
>   How is the best way to remove the lighter to inspect and/or replace
>   it???   From the photo it APPEARS the silver sleeve should unscrew from
>   the copper colored tube.  Is that how it is removed?
>   They both rotate in unison and I can't find a way from the topside to
>   hold the inner copper tube still without removing the entire console.
>   Nothing on the top-side seems to be rotating.  I assume I have to
>   remove the seats to get access to the console screws.  Assumption on my
>   part.
>   Any hints on how this IMPORTANT (to some) item is removed?
>   Thanks,
>   Fred Foreman  #4166
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