dash switch tool?

[Alvin in AZ]

Made from a little 7/16" boxed end wrench...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/switchtool.jpg
...the 3/8" end was bent sideway real bad.

Tru-Fit wrenches have always been too soft in my experience.
YMMV

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I made this tool to fit the ignition switch nut on my '75 F150,
turns out to fit a bunch of stuff on my '74 C700. :)

I have posted this same picture and asked this same question
on at least four website forums and never got even one guess. :/

Guess what this one's made from... ;)
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/ignitiontool.jpg

Alvin in AZ

[Heathcliff68f100]

pipe? an o2 sensor socket?

[Alvin in AZ]

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/ignitiontool.jpg

pipe?

You are the only one that's ever guessed at it! :)
Yep, 1" black pipe. :)

Messed around with an automatic center punch
until I'd dented in three equally spaced spots.
Ground out what I could, then went to filing.

Alvin in AZ

[Alvin in AZ]

Check this thing out... :)
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/shippingpin.jpg

Alvin in AZ

[fordman]

thats from the frame bottom front i think.

[Alvin in AZ]

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/shippingpin.jpg

thats from the frame bottom front i think.

Yeah there's like 4 to 6 of them on all the Ford frames I've paid attention to.

In the old days the "auto parts train" would go by every other day or so and
the flat cars would have frames stacked up as high as they could get them. :)

Those pins kept them from shifting.
"tie banding" was used to hold them down.

Sometimes the box cars would have a door open and you could see engines
and transmissions stacked up in their frame-like crates etc etc. :)

The Santa Fe hauled Ford and the SP hauled GM stuff, I worked for the SP.

That pin came out of my '91 Bronco, it was easy as anything to drive out
compared to all the others I've tried to hammer out. :) The only reason
to remove them is if you get tired of bumping into them. BTDT way too
many friggin times, so out all of them came or got ground off flat. LOL :)

Alvin in AZ

[fordman]

i always wondered what that pin was for in the frame.