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1. [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: wayne osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 13:15:27 -0400
Been emailing a guy back and forth, and now the topic of the throttle located on the dash of the TF trucks has come up. Any guesses to the actual intended function of the feature? Anybody ever heard
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00002.html (7,908 bytes)

2. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: Mask1966@aol.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:44:18 EDT
Why anyone knows this is early cruise control. I remember back on the farm when I could not reach the pedals (age 8?), my dad put our '50 in Granny low at part throttle using the T knob. I would stee
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00003.html (8,064 bytes)

3. RE: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: "Hanlon, Bill (ISS Houston)" <bill.hanlon@hp.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:11:20 -0500
Power take-offs were common on the larger trucks. Ran winches, pumps, etc. You would need a manual throttle for these options. Been emailing a guy back and forth, and now the topic of the throttle lo
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00005.html (8,366 bytes)

4. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: Tom3600@webtv.net (Toms OLTRUK Z49)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:15:40 -0500
When I was a young guy in the winter you would pull out the choke, pump the gas and when the engine started you pulled out the throttle to rev up the engine for faster warmup. You went back in the h
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00006.html (7,736 bytes)

5. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: "Spencer" <wits_end@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:58:59 -0700
Tom, I used the throttle knob for the same purpose growing up in Las Vegas. Shoot, sometimes the temperature would drop darn near to 40 degrees in the winter. Harry 1955 Chevy AD Reno, NV oletrucks i
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00007.html (8,431 bytes)

6. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: wayne osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:31:29 -0400
My dad would so the same in the corn field--great memories huh!!! In my early years dad would put me driving the straight line while they gathered the corn--I figured out the clutch after a while as
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00020.html (8,294 bytes)

7. [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: Steven Stuckmeyer <slstusmc@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
I had a 47 Dodge 1 ton and a 67 Scout at one time that both had a cable throttle in the dash. They both had pto, you could set the throttle when using what ever it was attached to. The dodge had a Li
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00027.html (8,137 bytes)

8. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: "PPM SASKATCHEWAN LIMITED" <ppm@accesscomm.ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 01:13:11 -0600
During the war years, the 40's, my father being an a succesfull business guy, a shoemaker with only a basic education that enabeled him to scribble his name and that was about it, got the contract to
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00032.html (8,446 bytes)

9. Re: [oletrucks] throttle pull knob (score: 1)
Author: "Martin Smith \(Yahoo\)" <smithm92@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:36:38 -0700 (PDT)
...and I only thought the throttle pull knob was for a cruise control... just goes to show how little I know how these trucks really were used 50 years ago. Many years back I had a '63 C-10 but it di
/html/oletrucks/2004-06/msg00036.html (7,918 bytes)


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