Exhaust Brake Switch Ideas?

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

Well i made a trip to the local junk yard today with two of my buddies after school and got a few things..all for free haha i got two "lightning audio" or something 6x9 speakers out of an 80's camaro, we tried em in my buddies chevy 1500 and they worked, pretty decent sound too. So i think im gonna throw them in my 82 F100 project. I also got an exhaust brake switch off the shifter of an older international plow truck. I mounted the switch on the shifter in my truck as soon as i got home, but im just not sure what i should wire it up to lol you guys got any ideas?? Ill see if i can get a pic of it...

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

Heres a pic of it, not the greatest bc it was dark lol but i cant always get a better one tomorrow..

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

Heres a pic of it, not the greatest bc it was dark lol but i can always get a better one tomorrow..

ramhunter9 · Jan 2, 2012

Um , that might not work for you as a exhaust brake is for a diesel

iSlacker816 · Jan 2, 2012

I think he's just wanting to use the button for somethin besides an air brake. Brake light kill switch so the cops wont find ya lol, someone will chime in with a better idea

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

ramhunter9 said:
Um , that might not work for you as a exhaust brake is for a diesel

yeah i know ahah but i cut the wires off it when i pulled it out of the truck in the junk yard. theres about a foot or so of wire still on it, so i can just add wire to it if i need to. but id like to hook it up to something, it looks kinda cool on there haha but i know it wont work as an exhaust brake, i wish i had the diesel though lol maybe one day...

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

iSlacker816 said:
I think he's just wanting to use the button for somethin besides an air brake. Brake light kill switch so the cops wont find ya lol, someone will chime in with a better idea

yeah thats the plan haha but i dont need the brake kill switch...trucks too fast, the cops cant catch itt

ramhunter9 · Jan 2, 2012

Wire it up to some fog lights or something, thats all I can think of

BlackedOutHemi · Jan 2, 2012

Any aftermarket lighting you have, or train horn, anything aftermarket is going to be best bet.

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

yeah i guess i could do that. i do have the "wanna be" train horns from Harbor freight lol but theyre already wired to a switch under my dash. and then i have the red LED strips under my dash too which are on a switch right next to the one for the horns. maybe ill hook this switch up to a set of fog lights or something...ill have to do some ponderin on it lol

iSlacker816 · Jan 2, 2012

ktm1217 said:
yeah thats the plan haha but i dont need the brake kill switch...trucks too fast, the cops cant catch itt

Lmao, well keep it slow turbo!

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

iSlacker816 said:
Lmao, well keep it slow turbo!

Its hard to control all that power of the 318 though ! It just wants to go hahah

Badger · Jan 2, 2012

NOS! Lol that would be great

ol'red02 · Jan 2, 2012

mount some fogs

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

Badger said:
NOS! Lol that would be great

NOS lmao thats the lastt thing i need. this things already a cop magnet and id really be gettin myself into trouble with that hahah

ktm1217 · Jan 2, 2012

ol'red02 said:
mount some fogs

Yeah i think thats what im gonna do. Ive been thinkin about gettin a nice set of off road lights, like KC's or something and either puttin em behind the grille or makin some kind of a mount for the them on the front bumper. I might get a grille guard like this one maybe this summer hopefully so i could put lights on that. http://images01.olx.com/ui/5/89/44/...ard-KC-Lites-May-TRADE-Indiana-1271621711.jpg I just dont want it to come up this high, just to the middle of the grille. Well see what happens though..

tmerritt530 · Jan 2, 2012

Those switches can be used to switch between high/low range axles on big rigs as well. Basically anything you want in your case!

ktm1217 · Jan 3, 2012

Alright, i think the decisions been made...Im gonna run down to the local junk store, or toy store in my opinion haha and see if they have any sirens. i know they did have one a while ago and one of my buddies said they have another one again too. so ill pick that up and wire into the exhaust brake switch

the one im hopin to get looks a little something like this:
Old Truck Siren | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

ktm1217 · Jan 4, 2012

Heres the update guys! I went down to the local antique store with my buddy after school today. The guy had four or five sirens for like $25 at the most. However, most of em were 6 volts except for the one that i got. We tried it in his store on a 6 volt battery, nothing. Tried it on my truck in the parkin lot, nothing. So i told him it wasnt workin and he said "well, go ahead and take it and maybe you can mess with it and get it to work". It was only marked for $2 haha so i brought it home, bypassed the relay mounted to the bottom of it and it went. I was able to get it all mounted and wired into my truck in less than an hour in 10* weather and it works great! Pretty good find id say! Ill grab some pics tomorrow of it.

ktm1217 · Jan 5, 2012

Heres those pics. First one is the air horns, and the siren is the black round thing above them. Second pic is the exhaust brake switch for the siren mounted on my shifter haha

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