Lenn

If it's in the "off" position and everything is running ok, I think its the "more power" switch. Gives you an extra 75hp when towing a trailer (hence the location). It's a rare option that most don't even know they have.

Texboymike

I will check that out also. Never heard of it but worth checking out

Texboymike

OK, here is the scoop. I traced the wires back to a small black box. On the box says ECCO model 510. Looked it up and it's a back up alarm. The switch is off if you turn it on and put it in reverse the alarm will sound. Evidently the truck was used on a job site at one time

Ricktwuhk

Coward! Wouldn't just throw the switch and see what happened?

RLXXI

The whole time reading this thread all I could think of is that Mad Max scene where he flips the switch in the back and when someone tried to steal his gas,...... See picture above^
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SixShooter14

Well that's a bit anti-climactic

All Hat No Cattle

LOL. Most likely a take home truck from a company that mandates a back up alarm during working time.

But he probably throws the off switch when backing out of his garage on a 3 AM callout.

chickenwire

I'll expose my computer geek side. Back in the day a student (I believe it was at M.I.T.) noticed a toggle switch on the mainframe computer marked "magic" and "more magic" set on the "more magic" position. He flipped it and the mainframe died. Some time later he told of the event to another person. They went into the mainframe room, opened the cabinet and saw a single wire going to the switch. Everyone knows a single wire can't do anything but they traced it to a grounding block. Pffft, that can't do anything. They flipped the switch and it died again!

Legend has it that a professor took the mainframe to his basement after they retired it - and he's left the switch in the "more magic" position since!

larry2c

We called switches like Chickenwire described "Officer Switches" back in my Navy days. They could flip it all they wanted and not hurt anything! Yeah, I was an enlisted squid

SteveLord