"Weldon Wallick" > wrote in message
...
> This problem was in a local paper where F 150's have caught fire from
> faulty cruise control cut off switches. They said the same switches
> are in some Explorers such as my 2002.
>
> The switch is 20 or so dollars.
>
> My question: can I easily change the switch?
>
> Concerns: that brake fluid might run out or air might get into the
> brake system.
>

How would you know that the new switch is less likely to spontaneously
combust than the existing switch? It's taken them a good few years to figure
out that there just might be the slightest possibility that an
infinitessimally small fraction of all the switches ever fitted might
possibly, just possibly if there's a 'R' in the month, there's a full moon
and the wind is in the right direction, cause a fire. How good was the
quality control in the factory that made the new switches?
You need to weigh up those odds against the very real possibility of losing
fluid, getting air or dirt in the lines by doing a DIY panic job and then
having the previously good brakes fail on you just when you need 'em to
avoid that big rig that just ran a red light...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it....

Simon H