This can't be right. '67 flasher switch?

[pritch]

I was checking out my new '67 the other day and I noticed it has this flasher switch:







I've never seen one like this, you push it in to turn the flashers on (they work)

It looks like it's been added, but I'm just checking.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by pritch

I was checking out my new '67 the other day and I noticed it has this flasher switch:







I've never seen one like this, you push it in to turn the flashers on (they work)

It looks like it's been added, but I'm just checking.

Yeah, you're right. The stock Hazard button for '67-'68s was a small red tab that was pulled out. They tended to break off and the GM dealers only had '69-and-later replacement buttons that were black, bigger and had a spring to snap them back to the column. Yours is not from a GM truck of the period. It must be something that the PO found that fit and worked.
If it ain't broke...

[Spartan]

The switch in my 69 is a red tab. Looks OG to me. Yes they get brittle. They break easily.
If what you have works you are ahead of the game.

[midniteblues]

My 67 has the same. Also my colum has a extra hole in front of the knob mines the only colum I've seen with this hole.

My rear view knob is the same way.
I do believe these both are oe on my truck.
Both are differnt from my kids 67.
And I only saw these two parts on the previous gen trucks.
Witch makes me believe these are early build peices

I have been wanting to ask about how to find how early my truck was built.
I do know it was ordered 9/26/66.
But really don't know how else too tell what production # it was.

[Jrainman]

I remember reading somewhere ,that 67 is a one year only hazard system that had a self cancel operation ,for some reason GM decided it was a bad idea and scraped the system,anyhow maybe this has something to do with it.

[midniteblues]

Originally Posted by Jrainman

I remember reading somewhere ,that 67 is a one year only hazard system that had a self cancel operation ,for some reason GM decided it was a bad idea and scraped the system,anyhow maybe this has something to do with it.

Intresting never heard of that.
Any idea of how it's supposed too "self cancel "?
I've only ever pulled it in an out like any other hazard. Oh an yes it does work.

When I had the colum apart it sure looked like it was never fiddled with on the inside. But it would be hard too tell if it was done early in its hey day.

['68OrangeSunshine]

OK. It appears I have been talking out of my hat, about "all '67-'68s".
I had to look at my '67 K/10 Suburban to see if I had a red hazard button. I shot a pic of my hazard button. It's like a cut-down version of a chromed doorlock knob, but has HAZARD or FLASHERS in raised letters around the rim. I've owned the Sub since 1993, so I have no idea how original it is, but I never messed with it. [Aside from changing out the T/S switch.] Also has the mystery .45 hole next to the button. This truck was a Fremont product.
Pic below.

[Jrainman]

Ok so I remembered where I read this 1967 one year only info about self cancel on the hazard , apparently the switch was not a push/pull like 68-72 , push to activate and turn the wheel to deactivate the hazard ,

So this became a big problem for GM on there fleet trucks c10-30 when trucks had to enter construction sites ,when they turned in to the site the hazards would self cancel .

I got this fro Jim Carter trucks parts web site in there tech articles archive.

[dirtyjim]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

OK. It appears I have been talking out of my hat, about "all '67-'68s".
I had to look at my '67 K/10 Suburban to see if I had a red hazard button. I shot a pic of my hazard button. It's like a cut-down version of a chromed doorlock knob, but has HAZARD or FLASHERS in raised letters around the rim. I've owned the Sub since 1993, so I have no idea how original it is, but I never messed with it. [Aside from changing out the T/S switch.] Also has the mystery .45 hole next to the button. This truck was a Fremont product.
Pic below.

my 67 has the same small chrome button

[pritch]

The plot thickens...

Midniteblues opines that this is an early-in-the-run thing. My truck was born in Janesville and the vin would suggest that it was the 4977th off the line.

It's been awhile since I've been inside a column. I suppose my curiosity will get the best of me and I'll take it apart to see how it works. Soon as it gets warmer.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by midniteblues

I have been wanting to ask about how to find how early my truck was built.
I do know it was ordered 9/26/66.
But really don't know how else too tell what production # it was.

As I understand it, the number on your vin starts at 100000. So if your number is 101234, it would be the 1234th off the line of that particular plant. The letter before these numbers represents which assembly plant. So you could have Z101234 (Fremont)and I could have J101234 (Janesville). I think.

[midniteblues]

Mine is 104325 at Tarrytown
After some learnin.
So our #'s are not to far away just different plants.
I could be wrong on the early thing. But I could've sworn I saw both these items on earlier gen trucks.

[pritch]

Seems odd, though, about the 2 holes. If our type was plan A, plan B must have already been in the works, otherwise, seems to me there would only be the one hole.

I was fully prepared to find some clever PO rigged mine up to replace a broken red pull-out button, but it sounds like it was a factory thing. Go figure. The only unique thing on any of my three trucks, and turns out it was a bad idea and abandoned as such early on.