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Maiden Vogage indeed!
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Seriously, Big Congrats!


DAF

Not sure if you still need the info. but I saved an original piece of the rubber on my car that attaches to the bottom of the inner fenders. It is 2" wide, 1/8" thick and extended 1" below the bottom of the inner fender. See photo.

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Thanks you for that. Exact what I needed!

Very nice and great accomplishment to get it on the road so quickly even if your poor wife had the freeze. I wish it were so balmy here as it’s 15 degrees and dropping.

Kev,
Congratulations on the first drive! It goes, and it stops too. Very important.

The time and effort you've put into getting the Jackard up and running in a relatively short time is to be commended. Not to forget all the advice you've received along the way. It's obvious that this project has struck a chord with many Forums members.

Keep up the good work!

Very cool (no pun intended.)

If there's any photo work you need from my 115c sedan, let me know.

About 2"
I'll check mine tomorrow and post.

The graph paper is 1" square.

I can't remember If I had a good shot of the finished on the graph paper.

If I femember
The firewall end passenger side was a little long and needed trimming both in length and heigth.

Thanks!

Does anyone know of a bowden operated electrical switch?

The '37 has a throttle knob on the dash for raising the throttle speed. But, because of the Jag engine, I'm not using that. But rather than it just sitting there as a dash filler, I'd like to use that to control the electric choke. Thereby reducing one of the toggle switches under the dash.

The throttle knob and its bowden cable are pretty much one piece. So there is no real way of separating them to reuse just the knob on an electric push-pull type switch.

So id like to find a switch I can hide up under the dash/firewall that can be actuated with the bowden cable. It just needs to be a simple on/off arrangement. Worse come to worse, I guess I can make something up that uses a microswitch, and the end of the bowden cable just pressed the switch lever down when pushed all the way in.

But before I go that route, I was just curious if there is an off-the-shelf switch that would work. I tried a google search, but wasn't having much luck.

I don't find anything that small either. Several cable operated switches for commercial electrical panels or emergency race car disconnects and even cable operated battery master switches but all way too big or expensive for your purpose.

If you just want to turn the choke off what about an oil pressure operated switch that is closed until the pressure has built up to a certain amount. There have been a few who used something like that to turn off their aux electric fuel pumps after the engine is running.

Aside from a bare micro switch or even a normally closed push button activated by a part of your throttle linkage another relatively inexpensive option would be to make your own cable operated switch if that would work better.

For that you could buy a cheap heater control valve such as this one and gut the valve part off the housing. Use only the cable arrangement and support structure to either add a microswitch operated by the end of the swing action or maybe you could fit a rotary switch where the valve is at present. For the rotary switch, maybe the cable lever could attach directly to the shaft or if not, add a coupling between the switch shaft and valve mechanism shaft to use the cable operated part to turn the switch shaft. Downside to a rotary would be the cable swing and switch rotation would need to be taken into consideration and matched. Cable action would need to be limited if the range was too much and could be damaging to the switch.

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