Pictures of Mystery Electrical Part

[Charlie Olson]

Hi, there is an unknown to me electrical gizmo, attached to my removed, original broken handle cowl vent mechanism. It is a rectangular tube, 5" x 3/4"x 7/8", riveted to a bracket, which is bolt&nut attached to the handle side of the CVM. There is the old time fiber board/cloth wire connection protruding from the firewall facing end of this gizmo. I'll put some pictures of it on here on Tuesday. Being as my heater is now controlled by a single on/off, two fan speed knob/switch and my defroster tubes are attached to the heater with no heater/defroster control levers/cables. I open the heater doors for heater and close them for defrosting; although I haven't done any of that since moving to AZ, from WA. Well, that isn't exactly accurate because I did use my heater and defroster when I got caught in a snow/sleet/hail storm while on the 23rd Annual Route 66 Fun Run, April 29th. My guess is that this gizmo was part of the original heater control system. Any other ideas? HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!! Don't forget my July 4th Photo Contest challenge!!!!

Edited July 7, 2010 by Charlie Olson

[PatS....]

Maybe it's a home made reminder light or buzzer to close the cowl vent?

I ruined a radio in my 49 Chrysler once by leaving the cowl vent open and having the rain pour down on the radio. I never opened the vent again and the radio never worked again

[Charlie Olson]

Mystery Electrical Part, more photos

[Merle Coggins]

It may be a blower motor resistor, but I've never seen one with a cover like that.

Merle

[Niel Hoback]

Thats what I was thinking. Someone used a resistor for something, maybe a blower speed switch, and mounted it there in the air stream to keep it cool.

[Charlie Olson]

After seeing how dusty my heater and defroster tubes were, in the heater photo, I spent about thirty minutes cleaning the dusty interior of my AZ desert residing PLYWOOD. All clean and dust free, now. I slid the cover off the piece and saw some very interesting electrical details, basically two posts connected by a fine wire, thin as a human hair.

[Jerry Roberts]

After seeing how dusty my heater and defroster tubes were, in the heater photo, I spent about thirty minutes cleaning the dusty interior of my AZ desert residing PLYWOOD. All clean and dust free, now. I slid the cover off the piece and saw some very interesting electrical details, basically two posts connected by a fine wire, thin as a human hair.

I recently replaced the resistor coils for the fan motor in my toyota . Six terminals and 3 coils for a multi speed fan , 12 volt of course . Those winding wires were about as thick as human hair .