Seriously this time I cried. Funny stuff I can just picture in my mind.

 

Uhm, no! Tehe

Well, I damaged my boyfriend's puller too, and it is not from harbor freight, so I guess we can all blame it on ford for making a foo-foo steering wheel Anywho, here is some pictures of the freightliner switch:











It is not yet painted, I was actually just getting ready to spray it, hence the towel over the dash to protect from the tons of overspray I will make. Like I said before, it is an old switch from an old tractor-trailer, but it works great for me. I think it is the same exact style of switch that someone on the other diesel site had acquired recently for converting their own truck, but I guess I got them beat to it

Hope that helps you some, I can get details from my neighbor tomorrow maybe, because now I have to run for work!

 

that Signal Stat 900 is the same switch they are still using in big rigs. that switch design is over 50 years old.
and i know of some that are over 50 years old and still working just fine in the trucks they were put in new back in the 60's.
ya don't mess with something that works.

 

Exactly what tjc said and after a while, manually canceling the signal becomes second nature. Left turn on mine went junk again and I've been thinking of making that same change. After seeing it installed, made it easy to decide

 

Weeeell, I was like totally super-busy with life lately, and just today finally got around to bugging the neighbor for details, and here is what he had to say - first off apparently those switches exist in at least two models, some have 4 wires and some have 7 wires. The switch he put in my truck has 7-wires, and what he did was just cut the old switch off the harness and splice the new switch in its place. The freightliner switch uses the factory 4-ways flasher for both normal turn signals and 4-ways (which is why he wanted to know where the thing is in the truck), he left the factory turn-signal flasher in place but it is no longer needed, so he kind of just let it sit there as a spare I guess. Oh he says he also cut apart the factory turn-signal switch under the steering wheel, and only left the part that holds some springy-things that are used for the horn and maybe the cruise control. I still have tilt-wheel too, as you can see he cut the lever-thing down so it does not get in my way much. About the way it's attached to the steering column, he says he found a bracket that actually bolts the switch to the freightliner column, instead of clamping it to it with what can be best described as a fancy hose clamp, so he modified that and drilled holes in my steering column (cause the factory switch is no longer in there, so there is a lot of space) and just bolted it up.

This is the simple and easy way, he said he did it in one afternoon after work and he was taking his sweet time with it (his wife confirmed the last part, tehe). If you happen to have a freightliner switch with four wires, then there may be some issue with your brake lights, but this is quite a bit over my head there... So you're probably better off just finding a switch with 7 wire, so you can like just plug it in and it will work.

And yes, I took notes for all this, as there is no way I remember even half of it for more than like 30 seconds