What is this?

[swervin ervin]

Well all you guys are making me feel old. OH! Wait!! I am old.

[SanitysBane]

im 16 and was blessed to grow up in a house were i was "forced" to help Dad work on his toy, 1970 SS Chevelle, i know and love carbs, and the dimmer switches, my friends keep coming up to me wanting me to fix there cars. im about to make me some good money.

[BodyShopDropOut12]

Well, I grew up around bikes. So this is definitely a lil different for me. I'm learning mainly about these old trucks and the engine as i go. And working alone is actually a lot better, get to fix or take apart things and learn by myself. Just have my friends dad, who works on race cars, come over and help me tool/info wise.

[ragity]

i may be a bit slow on this but i remember b/w tv when it first came out wow then color tv my 1st drivable car was a 1952 pontiac with a flathead six and not only a dimmer on the floor but for windsheild washer there was a bubble on the floor to push with your foot as well
lmao

[NeCrOmAnCeR]

My 67 Mustang has the same pump lever for the washers, and it's hooked to a switch which activates the wipers too. Very nice feature for misty days. How many people here remember the "kick starters" on the older cars??

[SanitysBane]

don't but got the crank rod out of a 46 in the shop or atleast tahts what i think it is...

[stepside454]

I like the floor dimmers better, easier for me to find than fumblimg for the blinker , unless your hand just happens to be over there

[ragity]

i remember them the kick starters that is also i used to have a furguson tractor that the starter was activated by the gear shifter between 1st and rev.

[apstguy]

My grandpa's 36 buick starts by pushing the gas pedel to the floor w/ the ignition on.

[BrianJordan]

i must be old too at 35 i know how to use a florbord starter switch. and know how to clean a oil bath air cleaner.

[rockman20]

The old cars are so much fun. I love the dimmer switch on the floor. I have pumped a well for water. I have actually tossed coal into a furnace in a house for heat. We still have an old "A" tractor that has the old crank start rod on it that we still use to mow the road ditches. This one doesn't run anymore, but we still have an old "D". A 2 cylinder tractor. The cylinders are almost the size of my head. You started this tractor by opening these "cups" on the side of the cylinder. This cup relieved the cylinder pressure and then you spun this large wheel by hand (rich people had an actual starter mounted to this) Once you got it running it was pretty cool to hear the phft, phft, phft, of those "cups" until you closed them. We still have a pickup that has the oil bath air filter. I have worked on a MonoJet carburator. I have worked on 2 barrels, Quads, points ignitions, and I have even touched an old road grader that you would start on gas. Once it got warmed up, you moved this lever that moved this complicated mess on the engine and switched it over to diesel. Oh, I am not sure how old this is, but our Cub Cadet we use at the lake has a starter/alternator all in one. Pretty neat unit. I can't think of anymore right now.

And I am 26.

[Prerunner1982]

Originally Posted by 8t5Silverado

I've heard of people connecting this switch to a pump in the rear wheelwells to shoot bleach on your tires for big burnouts...

can be used for a few things besides that, ignition kill switch, wiper squirter, dual tank switch, etc...

i love mine, my dads old jeep had one, all hmmwvs, dueces and my 5ton have them as well. it doesnt feel right driving something that doesnt have one.

[the baron]

I had also such a floor dimmer switch in my 1964 VW Beetle , a while ago...

I almost ROTFL & wetted my pants the day a friend of me asked me to drive him to the railway station , and saw I put his luggage under the front hood...

he was quiet for a while but I saw that he was not really at ease...

I asked him : "What's up ?"
he answered : " Why did you put my luggage on the engine , you moron ?"

I had to show him that the engine was in the rear , he couldn't believe his eyes...

It happened 15 years ago...

I had to laugh a lot a little time after that , when I went to the gas station , where a young man , very sure about himself , waiting to put some gas in the cars , turned almost three times around the beetle , as he didn't find the gas tank door...

I waited a few minutes , with a "poker face" , and told him to raise the front hood , there was the tank...

hehehe !

the Baron

[BrianJordan]

have u ever had chap your own fier wood too.or have u pored your own babbet barings. or have u ever have to forge your own horse shoes,or repair a windmill ony your own weatgrinder. i can go on and on...

[NeCrOmAnCeR]

Spewaking of gas station attendants. Had one walf around an old 56 Belair six or seven times looking for the gas door before he asked me where it was. Yes I have pored babbot bearings, and I have burnished the same bearings by connecting the engine to another and running it backwards. I have also just filed a bit of the rod end to get rid of a knocking rod. Have fixed a windmill but for a water tank not a grinder. I also love starting those old two-popper tractors... And i'm only 31. Oh yeh, the M88A1 also has a dimmer switch for its headlights (tank recovery vehicle)

[BrianJordan]

i ges you can take the boy out the country but you can't take the country out the boy.

[rockman20]

You said it Brian! I kind of live in the country yet, but not like I would want. We are just an agriculture farm. Small. About 1500 acres total. I want to be back out with cattle, horses, chickens, etc, etc. However, the sad fact is that money is tight out there. I make more being a computer geek then I do being a farm hand.

Oh, I have fixed a windmill but for water as well.

Never poured my own bearings though.

[BrianJordan]

i know what you mean rockman. the famley farm is gone, it was onley 80 acres.grandpaw was a bean farmer in newmexico.he got real sick and soled it off little by little. so i live in phoenix and do what i have to .bot my hart is still in the country.