Foot Switch stories

[mbrund]

Well the first part of your story is the same as mine. I went to
adjust the steering wheel height, unscrewed the horn button, slide
up the column while I was stopped at a light and when I tighten it
the damn air horn went off. I thought I broke it, thank god the
owner was in the coach with me, he starte laughing and said, lift
your left foot silly, your stepping on the floor air horn button. I
hit is about four or five more times during the test drive because I
am use to resting my foot at that location in my current RV and that
silly pedal that they have there is not comfortable for me.


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
wrote:
>
> 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
>