Chevrolet Truck Accessory
Book
Please note that the truck accessory book is contained
within the Silver book.
If you look closely at the
windshield wiper (above), it hooks on to the already under powered vacuum
wiper motor with a tie rod. With a single wiper, the motor can't
move much snow. The Vacuum Booster is a necessity if
you pull a trailer up hill with a ton & half truck in the rain.
The twin horns sound more impressive than the pleeful little bleat of the
manifold mounted horn. By clicking the page above, you can view the
center radio in passenger car accessories.
I believe the governor was made by HANDY. I could use the rest of
the page to tell you of ways I've seen them defeated.
The trux had no holes in dash
for defroster but many states required a defroster on School busses.
Contrary to the literature, You can't feel the fan in the summer when the
windshield of the truck is cranked open and all the bugs are in your teeth.
If you're wondering why the
regulator has 3 wires out one side, it is actually an alternator,
not a generator. The only literature I could find on the Alternator
was in a 54 manual and copied below. My 37 Chev/Flxible bus has a
6 volt alternator and two 6 volt batteries in parallel. In the lower
right it tells you to have the battery box custom made locally. If
you refer back to the passenger car accessories, it would be more economical
to buy two 6 volt batteries for less than $20 rather than pay close to
$60 for one 12 Volt. (click page above to visit passenger car accessories).
Until silicon diodes, the rectifier was quite inefficient and supplanted
the little beep horn on the manifold.
Click here for more electrical information!
Note that Fog lamps are sold individually as well as in pairs.
If you own a 35 or 36 Chev
passenger car, the ashtray and clock might look familiar.