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10-29-2006, 09:25 PM
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Location: Birdseye, IN
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Toggle switch?
There is a switch mounted down below my key hole on the underside of the dash in my 72, and the sad thing is I have no idea what it is for. I've flipped it but nothing ever happens. The guy I got the truck from didn't know either, and I think that the guy who originally restored it passed away. Would this switch be used for something common on these trucks? It's frustrating me that I don't know what this is for.
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10-29-2006, 09:29 PM
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Location: Blountville, Tn.
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Re: Toggle switch?
If there are wires connected to it. trace them down. I was working on a truck and it had a toggle switch that the owner had no clue of where it went. So I traced it down and found out it was going to the A/C. compressor clutch. Somebody could have put this in as a poor boy theft deterent. etc.
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10-29-2006, 10:22 PM
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Re: Toggle switch?
Wonder if the neighbors garage door opens and closes when you flip it?
 I had one of those on my burb. I found out it changed the horn. Someone installed a set of airhorns...toggle towards me and push the horn ring, stock horn, toggle away and push the horn ring, air horns. |
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10-30-2006, 04:14 AM
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Re: Toggle switch?
If you have [or once had] aux fuel tank, it could be a fuel select switch.
Or maybe it was for the CB. Position 1 = barefoot, Position 2 = 100 watt linear.
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10-30-2006, 05:54 AM
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Re: Toggle switch?
could be for rocket launcher// or maybe for spraying an oil slick in back of truck// or to turn off brake lights OR OR OR ????
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10-30-2006, 07:45 AM
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Re: Toggle switch?
i was gonna say that mabe the deceased owner hooked up a clutchable super charger (a la MadMax) & thats wat it could be for....
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10-30-2006, 11:47 AM
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Re: Toggle switch?
I had a toggle switch in mine, but under the dash on the left side of steering wheel. I followed the wires and they went to the heater fan. I ended up replacing the heater controls and now the toggle switch is working for my air compressors as a backup manual on/off feature.
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10-30-2006, 10:28 PM
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Location: Birdseye, IN
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Re: Toggle switch?
I'll follow the wire next time I get home from college. It really stinks being 180 miles from my truck.
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10-30-2006, 10:43 PM
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Re: Toggle switch?
I had a toggle that was a switch for my a/c. Sucked when you forgot and left it on.
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10-30-2006, 11:56 PM
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Re: Toggle switch?
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10-31-2006, 12:56 AM
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10-31-2006, 01:39 AM
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Re: Toggle switch?
if its like mine, okie constant hot to dome light
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10-31-2006, 02:01 AM
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Location: Omaha, NE
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Re: Toggle switch?
look at the airplane cockpit in andy's post... good luck figuring out what all that crap does...
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=214768 |
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10-31-2006, 02:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Hattiesburg, MS
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Re: Toggle switch?
mine has a toggle below the key hole.....its for a fan...pretty sure it was added on by the previous owner...
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10-31-2006, 07:21 PM
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Location: NC
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Re: Toggle switch?
Might have been put there by PO to make every body who got in the truck to wonder... I wonder what that switch does?
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