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Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209063] Tue, 28 May 2013 18:09 Go to next message
Mike B is currently offline  Mike B   United States
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I have a 1975 Palm Beach with a "spring loaded return" toggle switch installed to the left of the steering column (beneath the instrument panel). I have not been able to trace the wires to see what it is supposed to do. While browsing eBay this morning, I found a GMC listed that has the exact same switch in the same location. Since this installation doesn't appear unique, does anyone know what it was intended to control. The switch can be toggled, but immediately returns to the default position.

Mike Brasfield 1975 Palm Beach Port Ludlow, WA and/or Mount Dora, FL

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Re: [GMCnet] Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209064 is a reply to message #209063] Tue, 28 May 2013 18:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gary Berry is currently offline  Gary Berry   United States
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Is the other GMC the Glenbrook from Iowa (#261222383721)? Looks like it
might be a DOT switch that you flick the taillights with after passing a
truck. It's close to the headlight switch. Just a guess.
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Re: [GMCnet] Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209065 is a reply to message #209064] Tue, 28 May 2013 18:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mike B is currently offline  Mike B   United States
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That is the GMC that I saw, thanks for the suggestion. Someone else said they thought it was the battery boost, but I have that switch on the dash itself.

Mike Brasfield 1975 Palm Beach Port Ludlow, WA and/or Mount Dora, FL

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Re: [GMCnet] Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209067 is a reply to message #209065] Tue, 28 May 2013 19:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Windshield washer pump perhaps

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Re: [GMCnet] Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209068 is a reply to message #209067] Tue, 28 May 2013 19:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have a similar switch in about the same location that controls the eletric fuel pump. I'm afraid that you really need to trace the wire. Maybe attempting to turn it on without the motor running and listen for something running. It might not ven be connected to anything.
Tom, MS II

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209071 is a reply to message #209063] Tue, 28 May 2013 19:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Its the self destruct switch. Laughing



1976 23' GMCII By Explorer

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209073 is a reply to message #209071] Tue, 28 May 2013 20:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Off - On Switch

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209076 is a reply to message #209073] Tue, 28 May 2013 21:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Stick Miller wrote on Tue, 28 May 2013 18:22

Off - On Switch


Wouldn't that be "off - momentary on switch" ??

Smile Steve W

Steve W 1973 : 23' Southern California

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209077 is a reply to message #209063] Tue, 28 May 2013 21:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chr$ is currently offline  Chr$   United States
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Perhaps it opens your neighbors garage door... Rolling Eyes

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209117 is a reply to message #209063] Wed, 29 May 2013 08:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On a side note about the unit from Iowa, I remember this on my local Iowa Craigslist a few months ago. There was nothing about a smoking engine in that ad, and I'm pretty sure it was priced at $14,000. I'll be interested to see where this sells.

On the switch....on the facebook group, there's a guy who's macerator output was plumbed to a fitting through passenger side rear wall about a foot high. I suggested he look for a switch in the drivers area where one could kick the macerator on while drive and blow the waste along the road. Nasty, I know....but I bet there's more than one old train guy out there who would do this along a rural stretch of road and rationalize it because that's what the rail road did! Do you have a macerator or wires where one could have been? Very Happy

Galen Briggs New Virginia, Iowa 1978 Palm Beach

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209121 is a reply to message #209117] Wed, 29 May 2013 08:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chr$ is currently offline  Chr$   United States
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Ewww!

Galen wrote on Wed, 29 May 2013 06:25

On a side note about the unit from Iowa, I remember this on my local Iowa Craigslist a few months ago. There was nothing about a smoking engine in that ad, and I'm pretty sure it was priced at $14,000. I'll be interested to see where this sells.

On the switch....on the facebook group, there's a guy who's macerator output was plumbed to a fitting through passenger side rear wall about a foot high. I suggested he look for a switch in the drivers area where one could kick the macerator on while drive and blow the waste along the road. Nasty, I know....but I bet there's more than one old train guy out there who would do this along a rural stretch of road and rationalize it because that's what the rail road did! Do you have a macerator or wires where one could have been? Very Happy



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Photosite: Chrisc GMC:"It has Begun" TT: "The Other Woman"

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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209123 is a reply to message #209117] Wed, 29 May 2013 09:28 Go to previous message
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Galen wrote on Wed, 29 May 2013 08:25

On a side note about the unit from Iowa, I remember this on my local Iowa Craigslist a few months ago. There was nothing about a smoking engine in that ad, and I'm pretty sure it was priced at $14,000. I'll be interested to see where this sells.

On the switch....on the facebook group, there's a guy who's macerator output was plumbed to a fitting through passenger side rear wall about a foot high. I suggested he look for a switch in the drivers area where one could kick the macerator on while drive and blow the waste along the road. Nasty, I know....but I bet there's more than one old train guy out there who would do this along a rural stretch of road and rationalize it because that's what the rail road did! Do you have a macerator or wires where one could have been? Very Happy


Naaa, no GMC owner would pull such a trick. Laughing


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