#1. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to bugs (Reply # 0) Mon Oct-07-02 09:00 AM
all the older models would do that...the 4 ways and the brakes use the same wires and filaments...non european lights...now you want to talk strange...the 83 we have here in the shop (bosses)just wipes the windshield whenever it wants...you look out in the parking lot nothing on and wipe...and then nothing for a while....maybe a half hour later...wipe...LOL
#2. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to bugs (Reply # 0)
I remember on some 60's cars you'd turn on the flashers, turn on a turn signal and step on the brakes (or something along those lines) and you could listen to the radio without a key in the ignition.
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#3. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to Myk (Reply # 2)
Thanks guys, I didn't know that the 4ways ways were tied into the brake petal switch.
I have an 83 Chevy 3/4ton 3+3 and a 2002 25' fifth wheel camper. On or last camping trip I noticed that the propane 5.7L was getting a little weak going up a 12mile 7% grade, so for the first time I have ever used my 4ways, the brakes on the fifth wheel started to engage and disengage with the flashers. I thought that there was a short somewhere in the truck because my wife connected the pos-neg and the neg-pos on the fifth wheel spare battery (the main battery had died) before we left the campground, so I brought the fifth wheel to the RV dealer to have a look since they are the ones that installed the brake controller and the wiring. Well they confirmed my suspicions and told me that there was a short in the truck and it blew my controller. So I have been looking for the short, replacing everything that looked odd when I came to the brake pedal switch and I realized that everything is doing what it is supposed to. In this truck the 4ways are connected to the brake switch and if the signal wire from the controller is connected to the brake pedal switch (which it is supposed too) and you turn on the 4ways the brakes on the trailer engage and disengage. So I guess the RV dealer forgot to install a separate switch for the trailer brakes.
#4. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to bugs (Reply # 3) Mon Oct-07-02 09:03 AM
stop flashing when you step on the brake pedal! If it doesn't do that, then it's a safety hazard because it doesn't signal to the driver behind you that you are stopping. That's the way they are designed in all late model vehicles, including all of the '70s and newer.
You are correct, there is suppossed to be a seperate switch for the electric trailer brakes.
One other caution - do yourself a favor and get your whole rig weighed, fully loaded and ready to travel. If you can, weigh the trailer seperately. You might be carrying a heavier load than you think.
RVs, trailers, towing, and politics are discussed at news:rec.outdoors.rv-travel and also at news:alt.rv You have to wade through the political discussions and the other usual Usenet crap, but there's a lot of good advice there. There are also a few nice RV discussion boards out there to check out.
#5. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to bugs (Reply # 3)
Your trailer brakes are activated by your brake lights? I wouldn't like that type of set up.
What my dad always used when we'd haul a 4x4 behind our camper was something in the hitch that activated the brakes when the trailer would start pushing on the towing vehicle.
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#6. "RE: Does anyone have in their possession a full size early 80's Chevy Pick" In response to Myk (Reply # 5)
You guys might also be aware of another interesting quirk in some vehicles--that being a problem whereby a problem in the column switch assembly allows the turn signals to work but the BRAKE LIGHTS don't--so when you check your lights, you turn on one signal, yup, it works, turn on the other signal, yup, it works, but actually the brake light signal stops at the failed turn switch. Used to be popular in some of the older Chrysler products.
At least you seem to care. Up in this part of the country there are WAY too many people (many with plenty of money) who just can't be bothered to hook up trailer lights so they work. Just too much effort.