Hook the pedal to a momentary contact push button switch or something
like a brake light switch, then hook that to the starter solenoid?
Just a thought. I would be reluctant to dump the new ring gear and
starter just to get a floor button starter.
Would a 55.2-59 starter with the foot pedal mesh with the new gear?
Bruce K
57 3200
At Sunday, 9 February 2003, you wrote:
>I have a 12-volt starter on my '54 3100. It has a solenoid on it.
Somebody
>seems to have converted it because the original floor pedal for the
>starter is still hooked up, just part of it has been removed in
order to
>bolt the new starter in.
>
>The fly wheel looks pretty clean, compared to the caked on grease
on the
>rest of the mechanical parts, and the pan under it is not (was not)
on it.
>Somebody left that off. So I'm thinking they must have changed that and
>put a 12-volt starter on it.
>
>I want to use the floor pedal to start it, but like the idea of the
>12-volt starter since I plan to run the truck in our cold New York
>winters. (The whole ignition system is 12 volt.)
>
>Any ideas on how I can do this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Rich
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