mysterious toggle switch 49f1

[Upchuck]

anyone know what the little toggle switch is under the dash below the light switch is for on a 49 f1? seems to be a factory job since both my trucks got them, but neither runs and its been puzzling me for some time, and I can find no reference to it in the service manual

[Digger_Dave]

Under hood light?

[Paul]

follow the wires..

I've had a couple of those trucks but it's been at least 22 years, memory fades..

I want to say heater but I'm not gunna, sounds stupid..

where's old beet, he's prolly been driving them every day since they were new http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Paul

[k9racer]

Clearance lights?? Like on top of the cab. But I have not driven 1 in 30 years.

[Rocky]

On the 49-50 passenger cars, the little toggle is to turn off the insturment lights.

[Upchuck]

I don't see any wires to the engine compartment that deadend and I tried to follw the wires but it just goes into a big batch of them wrapped up and I didn't want to open that mess of wires just yet til at least I get to have a spin in the truck in the next month hopefully, and in the parts truck the wireing is pretty much hanging from the dash not hooked to anything

I was just curious is all, thought maybe it was some secret switch to get power to the coil or something

[old beet]

Thats the switch for the NOSSSS, don't ya go to movies?.......OLDBEET

[k-member]

LOL, O shit! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Upchuck]

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Thats the switch for the NOSSSS, don't ya go to movies?.......OLDBEET

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I was wondering what all that extra crap was behind the seat!

they turned our finger bowl into a fabrication shop so no more movies for me http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Junkyard Dog 32]

Ejector seat?
Bat Signal?


JOEhttp://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[safariknut]

Don't know about the F-1 but on my 55 Safari there is a toggle switch under the dash(factory)that turns the lower interior lights(footwell)on separately from the upper ones mounted on the B pillars.They have a switch on the left B pillar and on the right rear panel next to the tailgate.Sounds like a light switch to me.

[4woody]

Maybe for an overdrive? Some Borg Warner R-10 OD's could have that.

[atch]

All these guesses are very clever, but based on over 30 years of owning Clarence, trust me, it's an on/off switch for the dash lights.

[mtflat]

Atch nailed it - the instrument cluster light switch. Powered from the main light switch (right rear post looking down from on top) by a Bl/R wire and two Bl/R wires come off the other side and go the the two dash lights - one over the speedometer and the other in the middle of the 4 gauges

[Upchuck]

thanks you guys, although its an incidental little thing it was sure puzzling me for some time now!

[Rocky]

Toldja

[Upchuck]

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Toldja

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you sure did, I thought maybe you were pulling my chain like some of them other reprobates! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif