Foot Switch stories

[Chuck Wheeler]

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

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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





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