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drbill

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I've bought a new wood dash from SS (It's the Prestige one) and the hole for the blower switch is smaller than the lighting switch holes. The toggle switch I have is too big. On the old dash, someone had enlarged the hole and back area to receive the switch, but I hate to butcher a brand new dash. Is there a smaller switch which is supposed to be used for the fan blower?
Thanks,
Bill
 
The blower switch is the same size as the headlight switch. The only smaller switch on the dash is the panel light switch. Are all the dash switch openings on the new dash the same size cut outs on the back? Eric
 
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Our # 000078 has the dash it fell off the boat with and the switches are like sized . . . .
 
65sunbeam said:
The blower switch is the same size as the headlight switch. The only smaller switch on the dash is the panel light switch. Are all the dash switch openings on the new dash the same size cut outs on the back? Eric
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In the center of the dash, at the bottom, there are 3 holes:
1. Left hole. Pre-labeled as "lights," larger hole and rear cutout. Toggle switch fits fine.
2. Center hole, no label, smaller hole with smaller cutout in the rear. On my old dash, this one was labeled as the blower. Someone had enlarged this hole and cutout to accept the toggle switch.
3. Right hole. Pre-labeled as "panel," larger hole with larger cutout in rear. Toggle switch fits fine.

Eric, that center hole is smaller with a smaller cutout in the back. If the panel switch is supposed to be smaller, then the new dash has one of the larger holes mis-labeled. All of my switches are the same size.
Bill

PS: there is another larger hole on the far left, next to the window washer pump. I could put the blower switch there, but I think that is supposed to be for fog lights, if fitted.
PSS: I just talked to Rick at SS. That smaller center hole is for a choke on the Alpines. He says just plug it. The far left hole by the washer pump is for the blower. All of the toggle switches are the same size.
 
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Bill,

I see you got your answer already from SS. Sounds like you were the unsuspecting beneficiary of a PO customization!

Just a FYI, I have learned that for Fog and Spot light switches, Rootes had a small, trapezoidal shaped panel that mounted below the dash in the area where the blower washer pump and wiper switches go.

Also, if correct, the blower switch should have its own label surround identifier that attaches under the mounting screw, while the other switches for lights and panel have the labels printed on the dash. Just another oddity peculiar to our cars.:)

Gene
 
Bill just gave me a call and we have it figured out. Something I didn't think about is that his Tiger being a MK1 shouldn't the heater blower switch be the one connected to the heater/vent control levers on the top of the dash? I can't remember but was it the MK1A's that started having the separate blower switch on the left hand bottom corner of the dash or did later MK1's have that as well?
Eric
 
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MK1's could have had the blower switch on the far left if set up the same as an alpine. my series 4 has the later style heater controls like the series 5 alpines and MK 1a and MK2 tigers. it also has a two speed blower.
 
The early tiger MKI's with the chrome ball ventelation slide contorls have the blower switch incorperated into the slide, later in the MKI production when they were to corss over body cars they used the plastic ended slides and the switch became a toggle mounted on the dash. There would be a parts list that should give the chassis number for the change.
 
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michael,
i wonder why rootes started using the two speed blower and the late style heater controls on alpines that were still all round corner cars? i know this setup was being used in december 1964 since my car was built a couple days prior to christmas. i have a full set of rootes parts books and can't find when they made the change. i know it's original to my car. wouldn't rootes have used the same controls on MK 1 tigers of the same period?
 
65beam said:
michael,
i wonder why rootes started using the two speed blower and the late style heater controls on alpines that were still all round corner cars? i know this setup was being used in december 1964 since my car was built a couple days prior to christmas. i have a full set of rootes parts books and can't find when they made the change. i know it's original to my car. wouldn't rootes have used the same controls on MK 1 tigers of the same period?
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You would assume so.. but then again bob, as you always say they seemed to do many things at the factory that dont ad up.

On the Tiger/Alpine parts interchange its interesting to see some changes made before and some later between the 2 models.. maybe due to the fact they were on different production lines and ran out of older parts before changing to updated ones at different times?
 
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