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| | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 | I'm asking this question simply out of curiosity. Today I looked at a 1955.2 one owner GMC half ton that has sat in a shed for about thirty years.
I was surprised to see that it had both a push button and a stomp starter. The starter had a solenoid attached to it that the push button was wired to. The stomp starter went through what appeared to be a factory cut hole in the floor and the linkage was all connected to the starter. Both were rigged to be operable. Both the push button in the dash and the stomp starter looked like factory installed equipment.
Did they come this way from the factory?
Matt | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | No, it did not. It would have had mechanical linkage if a manual transmission was used or a solenoid if a Hydra-Matic. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 914 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 914 | Any signs that the truck had a transmission transplant?
Jeffrey | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 592 | No sign of a transplant. It had an SM420 and there was no evidence of a Hydra=Matic shifter ever having been installed on the column. My hunch is that a starter button/solenoid was added. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,636 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,636 | If the starter with the solenoid had exposed linkage then I guess the manual stomp linkage could have been modified to push the exposed linkage on the starter.
Would have had the same effect. Pushing the linkage forward into the solenoid would move the drive towards the flywheel and if pushed in far enough would make the contacts in the solenoid connect.
Not sure why anyone would do that. | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | If you had a good picture of it, we could turn it into a tip!
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2015 Posts: 336 | It sounds to me that the owner installed a push button to free up his right foot for other things.
1959 3100 Apache Fleetside
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