Scotty,
I have removed the switch once before and the way mine behaves is that you can pull the switch out in the parking light and in the headlight mode. There are two ball bearings inside which lock the switch from being pulled out in the off position. However, the issue on our fogs is not whether the switch can be pulled out or not, it is how to get the power to the fogs. You can pull the switch out all you like in any position if you modified the lockout, but the way Ford wired the switch in the Contour, the relay which controls power to the fogs does not close the circuit to the switch until the switch is turned to the headlight mode, and then power is routed to the switch via the relay to give the ability to the fogs to be turned off/on. The only way that a modification other than our relay is going to work is if you take the switch out and rewire it. Getting the switch to pull out is really not the issue here. If you mod the switch to pull out in the off position you will also need to mod the relay so that you have power to the fog light switch all the time... our current mod as I understand it only puts power to the relay when parking lights or headlights are turned on... the relay still opens the circuit when the switch is in the off position. Sorry if this does not answer your question but I did read everything and that is what I gathered from it, but I do hope that it helps. Good luck.
