The turn signal flasher died on my '64 C10. I replaced it and the old one had a metal bracket that slipped over it. Anybody know what it's for?
It's the mounting bracket used on some applications. That tab thing slips into a drilled hole in a sheetmetal brace or body panel.
I guess it allows you to snap the bracket into a hole behind the dash and thus keep the flasher from dangling around under there.
In the '60's flashers were kind of generic...they were rated by the number of bulbs they had to flash, but otherwise they were one-fits-all...and many parts store ones came with a bracket. The more common generic bracket snapped over the side, 90 degrees to that one. On your Chevy fuse-box mount, someone just snapped the whole thing in without removing the thing. Ditching that useless weight should net you .000001 more MPG.
...a used flasher and bracket someone popped in some time in the past maybe??? Who knows. I'd remove it, put the flasher in the fuse box mount and put that extra mounting brk in the glove box... you know...juuuust in case.
My daddy always told me things like that were to make little boys ask questions. He never mentioned the part about "big boys also". In all honesty, I think that is to attach it to the flux capacitor in a Delorean!
Also...did your new flasher fix the problem? In one of my few encounters with '60's Chevy electrical stuff, I replaced the obvious flasher sticking out of the fuse box TWICE without result before I figured out that the damn thing was for the 4-way flashers and nothing to do with anything useful. Finding the actual turnsignal flasher was a lengthy process...it was actually hidden on a bracket clipped up under the dash...because, being dead, it was unable to click to guide me. I think I actually found it by groping because it was out of sight any way I could get my head under there.
Yep, the flasher was indeed the issue.. the ole truck is back up to spec. No 4 way flashers on my truck.. that's fur demdar newfangled pickemups
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