I happy to hear you got it whipped, congratulation!

I remember back in about the mid 80s, some of the aftermarket replacement turn signal switches came with oversized connectors. You couldn't get the connector to go down through the column no matter what you did. You had to remove the wires from the connector, tape them together, shove them through the column, then reattach the wires to the connector. It was pretty easy to mess up where the wires fit into the connector. I remember having to straighten out a few of the messed up wires in the connectors from other shops back then. Forgot about that until I read your last post! Would have been much more helpful had I remembered earlier.

If you think the 69 wiring in the service manual is difficult to follow, you won't want anything to do with most of the mid 90s FSM wiring diagrams, they are spread out over about 20 pages. Gene