Foot Switch stories
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03-13-2007, 18:34
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Foot Switch stories
I didn't "discover" the foot switch until our first camping trip. We were
having a great time with friends so did not get back to Fort Worth until about 1:15am. I had told Kathy that I was going to back it in the drive just far enough to clear the street because our drive passes within about ten foot of the neighbor's window. The Electric horn did not work so it was set to "air". When I thought I was about where I wanted to be for the night I leaned over to look and the horn started sounding. I pressed the horn button on the wheel a couple of times thinking it might be shorted, then thought I would just flip it to "electric" since it didn't work. Instead I hit the musical horn so now I had the air horn blasting and the bus playing "deep in the heart of Texas"! By this time the most of the nearby neighbors were peering out their window so I just turned off the master switch and told Kathy I would "deal with it in the morning. I now know about the foot switch, and the electric horn circuit has been repaired. Our neighbors still bring this up at block parties! It's good for laughs. - Chuck Wheeler - 82 FC 31 SB Fort Worth, TX _____ From: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Don Bradner Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:15 PM To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Foot Switch stories On 3/13/2007 at 7:34 PM Leroy Eckert wrote: >That foot air horn switch! Me to and it always happens at 7am How many here have foot switch stories? Here's mine... When we picked up Blue Thunder in Phoenix in January we spent awhile cruising around without our toad to get a feel for steering, brakes, turning radius, and so on. Returned to the consigning dealer and hooked up the toad to depart. Got to the first stop sign, where there was quite a bit of cross-traffic so I took that moment to adjust the steering wheel. The air horn started to blare and wouldn't quit. Great! A short in the steering column. Then it stopped. I made a left turn, then into a left turn lane where I stopped behind traffic and the horn started again. People getting rather nervous, and I'm watching my air drop. Then it stopped. We pulled around the block and back into the dealer's. A mechanic came out and we tried very hard to get it to sound, no such luck. He called Blue Bird and came back and said they told him several possible places for panels to look for the relay (to disconnect it) but it sounded like a major job to track down. So he said "There should be a dash switch for the horn." A dash switch for the horn? Sure, he says "There's a dash switch for everything on a Blue Bird." Sure enough, there was the switch, "Electric/Air" (I think that's right, I'm not in the coach at the moment) and we turned it to Electric. Beep Beep. We can live with that. We leave and proceed without incident to the Flying J where we took $400 in fuel (it was half-full and the prices hadn't risen yet), then pulled out into congested traffic on the side street. There goes the horn again, and it's air, not electric! The woman in front of me was almost frantic, and my wife says in a lot of cities I probably would have gotten shot. People I've told this to since then say Phoenix would be a good bet. Air pressure getting dangerously low, and no place at all to pull off the street. Then it stopped, and didn't happen again on the trip to Quartzsite. You can imagine my relief when I was reading the manual that night and got to the part about the foot switch... Don Bradner 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder" Eureka, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Foot Switch stories - Don Bradner - 03-13-2007, 17:14
Foot Switch stories - davidkerryedwards - 03-13-2007, 17:46
Foot Switch stories - Don Bradner - 03-13-2007, 18:04
Foot Switch stories - mbrund - 03-13-2007, 18:24
Foot Switch stories - Chuck Wheeler - 03-13-2007 18:34
Foot Switch stories - Chuck Wheeler - 03-14-2007, 03:39
Foot Switch stories - Pete Masterson - 03-14-2007, 12:04
Foot Switch stories - dthollis1961 - 03-14-2007, 13:14
Foot Switch stories - Don Bradner - 03-14-2007, 13:34
Foot Switch stories - whistles_n_bells - 03-14-2007, 18:10
Foot Switch stories - Don Bradner - 03-14-2007, 18:33
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