Not too long ago I said my obsession with leaf springs has been corrected or at least reduced but I have to ask, Why hasn't anybody suggested leaf springs with all the other stuff that wasn't factory installed in the TJ?
I don't hate floor dimmer switches but parking brake pedals suck. Would much rather sacrifice console for hand brake. Hand brake is too nice/easy to give up. I hate hunching over to release pedal brakes too.I would love to do the parking brake mod. Would give tremendous space for a larger console and/or move the cupholders to be more in the middle.
I don't want a floor dimmer switch personally, but how is having a switch on the floor vs on the steering column the same as going back to a flathead 4 cyl? You still have the same functionality, just a different way of operating the lights....a flat 4 cyl is a downgrade, so are vacuum wiper and the other stuff....Only similarity is the time period they came from.Back engineering at it's finest . . . . flathead 4 cyl. next?
I don't hate floor dimmer switches but parking brake pedals suck. Would much rather sacrifice console for hand brake. Hand brake is too nice/easy to give up. I hate hunching over to release pedal brakes too.
Some do. the majority I've been in don't. Seems to be a more modern change.At least a few vehicles released the parking brake by just pressing the pedal with your foot a second time. I wish I remember what vehicles.
Some do. the majority I've been in don't. Seems to be a more modern change.
Having moved back to the country myself, I find myself using high beams a lot more. That said, I still find the stalk-switch easier to use while driving. My left leg is often using the clutch, especially up and down the rolling hills of PA... with my hand on the steering wheel, I barely have to remove my hands to go hi-low.I've always thought that moving the high/low beam switch from the floorboard(s) to a column stalk was a grievous error; to wit: Your hand(s) are not always in the ideal place on the steering wheel (do ANY of you drive with your hands at 9 & 3 o'clock I wanna know?) to switch DOWN from high to low beams, but with few exceptions, your left foot is ALWAYS right there on the floor. Now that I'm living in the country again with mostly two lane roads (and LOTS of deer, squirrels, racoons, cats, and dogs "sharing the roads"), I find myself using the high beams all the time. It's a real PITA having to move my left (or right, depending on which vehicle in the current fleet I'm driving) into place ~152 times per drive to drop down and back up from high to low. I'd like to have a chat with the rocket scientist (or corporate bean counter, more likely) that "sold" the idea of a stalk mounted high/low headlight switch being a "better idea" - it categorically is NOT, unless you no longer have a left foot/leg...
At the end of the day, I guess this falls into that huge category entitled "First World Problems", LOL...
or you could make it easier on yourself and do an electrically actuated parking brakeI would love to do the parking brake mod. Would give tremendous space for a larger console and/or move the cupholders to be more in the middle.
Good point. How about a disc to drum front brake conversion to go along with the leaf spring conversion?Not too long ago I said my obsession with leaf springs has been corrected or at least reduced but I have to ask, Why hasn't anybody suggested leaf springs with all the other stuff that wasn't factory installed in the TJ?
You beat me to it.How about a disc to drum front brake conversion to go along with the leaf spring conversion?
That's mainly what I remember about them... all my Dodges and dad's Ford from the 70-80's that had the foot dimmer always needed to be replaced at least one during the winter, sometimes even twice. Salt-covered work boots, perpetually wet carpet, and copper wire and contacts don't go together as well as many would hope.We used to replace a lot of those at the gas station I worked in the late '60s to mid '70s. It was a common repair after winter driving. Another one was the foot switches for Wonder Bar radios.
I agree completely. All the retro-jokers above must not drive where you and I do. I've been wanting to install a floor switch for a while now ('05 LJ).I've always thought that moving the high/low beam switch from the floorboard(s) to a column stalk was a grievous error; to wit: Your hand(s) are not always in the ideal place on the steering wheel (do ANY of you drive with your hands at 9 & 3 o'clock I wanna know?) to switch DOWN from high to low beams, but with few exceptions, your left foot is ALWAYS right there on the floor. Now that I'm living in the country again with mostly two lane roads (and LOTS of deer, squirrels, racoons, cats, and dogs "sharing the roads"), I find myself using the high beams all the time. It's a real PITA having to move my left (or right, depending on which vehicle in the current fleet I'm driving) into place ~152 times per drive to drop down and back up from high to low...
I forget where the high beam indicator splices off of the high beam circuit but a diode may be needed somewhere to keep the low beam spliced to the high beam from powering the high beam indicator at all times when lights are on.I agree completely. All the retro-jokers above must not drive where you and I do. I've been wanting to install a floor switch for a while now ('05 LJ).
If you tie the low and high beam wires coming out of the multi function switch together, you can feed that to the floor switch. Then feed the two outputs from the floor switch to the low and high beams. The MFS will still be the main headlight on/off switch, but either the low or high position will feed power to the floor switch. Make the break upstream of where the high beam indicator wire takes off (bottom of page 8W-50-2, top of page 8W-50-4).
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