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The better question is how many remember driving a car from the 60's that had single speed wipers, much less two speed and much more less intermittent? I know one person in this thread knows first hand.
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The even better question is...how many remember driving a vehicle that had single speed wipers w/a vacuum wiper motor?
Vacuum operated wipers work OK when driving on the flats or downhill, but when climbing a hill, the vacuum wipers slow down to a crawl, some even quit working.
Vacuum operated wipers work OK when driving on the flats or downhill, but when climbing a hill, the vacuum wipers slow down to a crawl, some even quit working.
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This reminds me of when I got my first classic truck and I thought it didn't have high beams because the column turn signal wouldn't push forward for brights. My parents had a good laugh at my expense informing me of the high beam button. What made it worse was that I was 31 years old at the time.
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The T/S handle never operated the low/high beams on any FoMoCo vehicle.
1980 was the first year that some cars have a lever on the column adjacent to the T/S handle that flips the low beams to high beams and vice versa.
1978/91 F100/350's, Bronco's and Econolines with tilt wheel. Tilt wheel operates by pushing the T/S handle forward.
1980 was the first year that some cars have a lever on the column adjacent to the T/S handle that flips the low beams to high beams and vice versa.
1978/91 F100/350's, Bronco's and Econolines with tilt wheel. Tilt wheel operates by pushing the T/S handle forward.
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This lever was introduced in 1992 F150/350, Bronco & Econoline. Previous years had the dimmer switch on the floor.
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The even better question is...how many remember driving a vehicle that had single speed wipers w/a vacuum wiper motor?
Vacuum operated wipers work OK when driving on the flats or downhill, but when climbing a hill, the vacuum wipers slow down to a crawl, some even quit working.
Vacuum operated wipers work OK when driving on the flats or downhill, but when climbing a hill, the vacuum wipers slow down to a crawl, some even quit working.
Originally had a single speed wiper in the 65 and swapped for 2 speed and seem to recall it was an easy swap.
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