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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Engine/Drivetrain => Topic started by: Brady on December 16, 2017, 02:30:34 pm
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Another question about my 1973 K-10. It came with a three speed, column shift. A previous owner had changed it to a floor shift and just had a switch on the dash to turn the backup light on. It is a Hurst shifter, but it is a generic one; evidently no one makes a dedicated shifter for this transmission. We have a safety inspection here in WVa and I don't know if it will pass; they have been getting more and more strict.
Many years ago, I stole a plunger switch off of an old riding mower and it worked for several years. I had it mounted somewhere underneath where it was activated by one of the shifter levers. I am due for an inspection, so I was checking all of the lights and found that the backup lights no longer worked, except with the switch on the dash. I had a guy replace the clutch and had him replace all of the seals, because he removed engine and transmission to do the work. I don't know if the switch fell off, or if maybe he removed it. He has gotten out of the mechanical work, so he doesn't answer his phone.
I searched and all I found was about the switch for the column shift at the lower end of the column. I can't switch it back to a column shift, because something broke inside the column.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a switch that I could use and how I could mount it?
TIA,
Brady
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Reverse lights should be an option for safety inspection but a good thing to call on prior to going. If needed you can fashion a bracket with a button switch as you suggested.
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Depends on state, but most require reverse lights to only come on when in reverse and automatically go off when not in reverse.
That being said, I would look back into getting a switch back in the trqnsmission.
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Thanks for all of the comments.
It was over thirty years ago that I installed the backup light switch, and I had forgotten that I could access it from above. It turned out that the bracket on which it was mounted had gotten bent a little, so the plunger was not fully depressed. Just a little tweaking and now it works again.
An ironic note; I can't get it inspected until Jan.because all of the inspection stations are out of stickers. :=)