Please disconnect your battery!!!! If the wires are just flopping down in there, they could short out against the metal body support...not a good thing...it could keep the interior lights on all the time.
Sounds like you are working on the switch at the
rear of the door, correct?
To get the wires back up thru the hole, you will need to remove the quarter panel trim on the inside. This is the panel that goes up the side of the cabin just behind the side window. Once you have that off, you'll be able to fish the door switch up, and back thru the hole where the pin-switch goes. The wires should be connected to the switch BEFORE the switch is screwed into the door jamb.
btw...the pin switches screw into fittings riveted to the metal body structure(birdcage). What you heard falling was the wires, and what is left of the plastic insulator on the back of the pin switch that is broken. btdt...
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