Bit OT I know but my girlfriend's sister has just bought a 1960 Split-screen camper. It's the single cab pickup truck type.
I've been looking at it today and trying to help out with the electrics... currently the only working lights are one headlight mainbeam and one
brakelight on the same side! 
Anyway, in the cab, next to the clutch pedal is a large switch with 3 large wires connected to it. It's presumably a foot switch..... any idea
what it is?
Can find no mention in the workshop manual...
Thanks,
James
Dip Switch. Lots of old cars had foot operated dip switches.
Ah, nice one! Thankyou.
6 minutes for an OT reply.... not bad! 
God I love this site!
Any idea where the fuse box is while you're "in the zone"? Manual says behind the dash and a 2nd one by the fuel tank ( ) but
can't find either!
Cheers!
James
Very simple circuit. Battery tofuse to headlamp switch to dip switch. Dip switch is a single input to alternate outputs. One goes to main beams one to
dipped beams. No relays.
Does the glove box drop down to reveal the fuses?
[Edited on 3/7/08 by Dusty]
https://www.europaspares.com/ELECTRICAL/SWITCHES/FLOOR_MOUNT_HEADLAMP_DIP_SWITCH___322100__4462.html
Best place for the switch, leaves you hands free when going round a corner at night and you come across another car. You can get new ones at EuropaSpares. Same goes for wing mirrors on wings, totally stupid to have them on the doors, just creates blindspots which you don't have with wing mounted ones.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Best place for the switch, leaves you hands free when going round a corner at night and you come across another car. .
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Originally posted by James
Anyway, in the cab, next to the clutch pedal is a large switch with 3 large wires connected to it. It's presumably a foot switch..... any idea what it is?
Thanks,
James
Thanks for all the help everyone!
Found the fuses behind the wooden panels in front of driver/passenger's knees.
As everyone said, the foot switch is for dip and it works (on the side the headlight works!).
I put the multi-meter across the headlight connections.... +12v on the working light and nothing on the dead one so presumably that eliminates the
bulb and means it's the power from the foot switch that is the problem where it branches out left and right.
Or, thinking about it, the fact that the rear light doesn't work on the same side.... does that mean it's the headlight switch itself
that's duff?
The wiring's been well bodged before... with just wires twisted together and taped! Glad to say my Locost wiring was done much better!
Cheers,
James
you have a 1960 split screen camper pickup, so wish I had one...........
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Originally posted by darrens
you have a 1960 split screen camper pickup, so wish I had one...........
As an OT post to an OT thread, when I was a kid (7 or 8) they brought a fire engine in to the schoolyard and let the kids crawl all over it (before
H&S obviously). My mum and dad had a MkI Mini with a floor mounted dip, so I pressed the one on the fire engine as the other kids wrestled with
the steering wheel - it's a floor mounted siren switch on a fire engine apparently. Much excitement ensued
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Originally posted by James
Thanks for all the help everyone!
Found the fuses behind the wooden panels in front of driver/passenger's knees.
As everyone said, the foot switch is for dip and it works (on the side the headlight works!).
I put the multi-meter across the headlight connections.... +12v on the working light and nothing on the dead one so presumably that eliminates the bulb and means it's the power from the foot switch that is the problem where it branches out left and right.
Or, thinking about it, the fact that the rear light doesn't work on the same side.... does that mean it's the headlight switch itself that's duff?
The wiring's been well bodged before... with just wires twisted together and taped! Glad to say my Locost wiring was done much better!
Cheers,
James
Probably been converted to 12v ? the 6 v lighting was a joke