Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209063] |
Tue, 28 May 2013 18:09 |
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Mike B
Messages: 35 Registered: November 2011 Location: Port Ludlow, WA / Mount D...
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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 #209068 is a reply to message #209067] |
Tue, 28 May 2013 19:20 |
tphipps
Messages: 3005 Registered: August 2004 Location: Spanish Fort, AL
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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
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
KA4CSG
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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209073 is a reply to message #209071] |
Tue, 28 May 2013 20:22 |
stick miller
Messages: 1036 Registered: March 2010 Location: Americus, Georgia
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Off - On Switch
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold '84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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Re: Dashboard Toggle Switch [message #209121 is a reply to message #209117] |
Wed, 29 May 2013 08:57 |
Chr$
Messages: 2690 Registered: January 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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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 $14,000. I'll be interested to see where this sells.
On the switch....on the facebook group, there's a guy who's macerator output was plumbed to a fitting through passenger side rear wall about a foot high. I suggested he look for a switch in the drivers area where one could kick the macerator on while drive and blow the waste along the road. Nasty, I know....but I bet there's more than one old train guy out there who would do this along a rural stretch of road and rationalize it because that's what the rail road did! Do you have a macerator or wires where one could have been?
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-Chr$: Perpetual SmartAss
Scottsdale, AZ
77 Ex-Kingsley 455 SOLD!
2010 Nomad 24 Ft TT 390W PV W/MPPT, EV4010 and custom cargo door.
Photosite: Chrisc GMC:"It has Begun" TT: "The Other Woman"
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