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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 52 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 52 | I have a push/momentary switch on the dash that I have no idea what it is suppose to work. In the back of the switch, it has two plugs, one plug with a light blue wire and the other plug with a dark blue wire and a black wire. Other than missing the knob, the switch appears original. For some reason, instead of the switch facing the driver they moved it and it faces down. Does anyone have any idea what this switch works?
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 212 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 212 | Trace the wires...see what they go to. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 |
What year truck?
What kind of transmission?
Can you post a link to a photo of the installed switch?
" . . . instead of the switch facing the driver they moved it and it faces down." How do you know the switch has been moved?
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 | It sounds like you're describing the original-equipment starter button for a hydramatic-equipped truck. It was on the left side of the steering column, facing downward toward the floorboard on the rolled-under part of the dash.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | "It sounds like you're describing the original-equipment starter button for a hydramatic-equipped truck. It was on the left side of the steering column, facing downward toward the floorboard on the rolled-under part of the dash. "What year(s) truck, Jerry? The poster has not specified a year. The solenoid starter button on Hydra-Matic 54/55 trucks is not as described.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 | The 54 GMC I drove hauling hay for a neighbor back during high school had the starter button located as I described. It's possible it had been relocated, I suppose, although I sort of remember that location on a few others. 50-something years can play tricks on an old geezer's memory, however!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 52 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 52 | My truck is a 61 Chevy C10. It almost seems like the switch could be for the wipers with the push part being for the washers, but I already have a switch for the wipers and I do not have washers. I have been checking wire schematics with no luck. | | |
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