1973 HQ Premier 1 tonner - where's the high beam switch?

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?

I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
mechanics/electricians.

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Diesel Damo wrote:
> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>
> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
> mechanics/electricians.

Fukn! I just remembered where it is a nano second after I pressed the
post button.

It should be a foot switch on the firewall where the clutch pedal would
normally go. Which made it hell when my bro got his HQ Premier
converted to a manual.

[Ext User(Noddy)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?

The first notch on the switch is supposed to be the parkers.

> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
> mechanics/electricians.

It'd be next to impossible to find such a vehicle that hasn't been subjected
to such treatment.

--
Regards,
Noddy.

[Ext User(quandong nut)]

On 2 Dec 2006 00:39:22 -0800, "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>Diesel Damo wrote:
>> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
>> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
>> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>>
>> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
>> mechanics/electricians.
>
>Fukn! I just remembered where it is a nano second after I pressed the
>post button.
>
>It should be a foot switch on the firewall where the clutch pedal would
>normally go. Which made it hell when my bro got his HQ Premier
>converted to a manual.

No more hell than we all grew up with, on all the earlier manual Holdens (et
al). And all the pre-war (#2) stuff that I can recall had the floor-mounted
dipswitch. The idea of mounting the switch on a stalk is a more modern eurojap
thing.

[Ext User(Scotty)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Diesel Damo wrote:
>> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
>> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
>> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>>
>> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
>> mechanics/electricians.
>
> Fukn! I just remembered where it is a nano second after I pressed the
> post button.
>
> It should be a foot switch on the firewall where the clutch pedal would
> normally go. Which made it hell when my bro got his HQ Premier
> converted to a manual.
>

Huh?! Took ya four minutes to type less than 5 lines! You need lessons dude.
;o)

[Ext User(Neil Gerace)]

"Noddy" <dg4163@(nospam)dodo.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1165048523.950463.128450@16g2000cwy.googlegro ups.com...
>> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
>> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
>> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>
> The first notch on the switch is supposed to be the parkers.
>
>> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
>> mechanics/electricians.
>
> It'd be next to impossible to find such a vehicle that hasn't been
> subjected to such treatment.

As I recall there were no Premier 1-tonners. They all had two headlights and
a different grille to the sedans. Though it would have been easy to put a
quad-headlight Premier nose on afterwards, I'm guessing.

[Ext User(Noddy)]

"Neil Gerace" <geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> As I recall there were no Premier 1-tonners. They all had two headlights
> and a different grille to the sedans. Though it would have been easy to
> put a quad-headlight Premier nose on afterwards, I'm guessing.

To the point of finding one these days that *hasn't* been done is difficult.

--
Regards,
Noddy.

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Scotty wrote:
> Huh?! Took ya four minutes to type less than 5 lines! You need lessons dude.
> ;o)

LOL. Google had a couple of their famous "server errors. Please try
again in 30 seconds because we haven't got a clue how to work shit"

Plus satellite internet doesn't like nasty weather :-(

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Neil Gerace wrote:
> As I recall there were no Premier 1-tonners. They all had two headlights and
> a different grille to the sedans. Though it would have been easy to put a
> quad-headlight Premier nose on afterwards, I'm guessing.

Yeah I'm not real sure what to call it. It's got the Premier nose, the
glove box has a Premier badge on it, but the dash says Kingswood.

[Ext User(Michael C)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> LOL. Google had a couple of their famous "server errors. Please try
> again in 30 seconds because we haven't got a clue how to work shit"

Yeah, google have no idea what they're doing. That's why they make billions
of dollars a year without actually producing anything

Michael

[Ext User(Michael C)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
> mechanics/electricians.

Reminds me of my EH, I pulled out half a garbage bag of additional wiring,
all in purple. After removing it all the only difference was the lights in
the boot no longer worked. I have no idea what the rest of it did. :-)

Michael

[Ext User(Andy)]

Michael C wrote:
> "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1165122829.663853.120030@73g2000cwn.googlegro ups.com...
>> LOL. Google had a couple of their famous "server errors. Please try
>> again in 30 seconds because we haven't got a clue how to work shit"
>
> Yeah, google have no idea what they're doing. That's why they make billions
> of dollars a year without actually producing anything


See 'Microsoft'.

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Michael C wrote:
> Reminds me of my EH, I pulled out half a garbage bag of additional wiring,
> all in purple. After removing it all the only difference was the lights in
> the boot no longer worked. I have no idea what the rest of it did. :-)

LOL. I don't want to scare myself by looking into this HQ situation too
much.

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Michael C wrote:
> "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1165122829.663853.120030@73g2000cwn.googlegro ups.com...
> > LOL. Google had a couple of their famous "server errors. Please try
> > again in 30 seconds because we haven't got a clue how to work shit"
>
> Yeah, google have no idea what they're doing. That's why they make billions
> of dollars a year without actually producing anything
>
> Michael

What has happened to your sense of humour?

[Ext User(Michael C)]

>> "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message Yeah, google
>> have no idea what they're doing. That's why they make billions of dollars
>> a year without actually producing anything

> What has happened to your sense of humour?

Sorry, my measage was meant to be humourous, just didn't come accross that
way. :-) I was repeating a quote from someone at work. When they overheard a
group of us talking about what idiots google were for paying 2 billion for
youtube their response was that google didn't get to where they were by
making bad decisions.

[Ext User(Michael C)]

"Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> LOL. I don't want to scare myself by looking into this HQ situation too
> much.

The other great thing with the EH was pretty much every single contact in
the car, every plug, switch and light socket, was rusty and didn't make
contact. The only thing that did work was the ignition switch and starter
motor. The good thing about a car that old though is that it is possible to
understand the complete wiring system.

Michael

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

Michael C wrote:
> Sorry, my measage was meant to be humourous, just didn't come accross that
> way. :-)

No probs. I'd just gotten out of the car from a long drive so my head
probably wasn't on straight at the time anyway.

[Ext User(Athol)]

Neil Gerace <geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> As I recall there were no Premier 1-tonners. They all had two headlights and
> a different grille to the sedans. Though it would have been easy to put a
> quad-headlight Premier nose on afterwards, I'm guessing.

The HQ to HZ 1-tonners all had HQ style fronts. The plenum changed from HQ
to HJ _inside_ the windscreen to suit the later dash but stayed the same on
the outside.

All HQ used the same bonnet and, aside from the GTS fluted guards, all used
the same guards. The radiator support panel came in 2 varieties - "single"
and "dual" headlight, being for belmont/kingswood and premier/statesman
respectively. The outer panel came in 3 varieties - single headlight for
belmont/kingswood, dual headlight with single grille for premier and dual
headlight with a centre divider for two separate smaller grilles for stato.

The 1-tonner had a unique combination of parts at the front, consisting of a
rounded bumper that was further away from the body than the normal ones, and
didn't contain indicators. The blinkers were mounted between the headlights
and grille. The grille was a pressed steel item with large rectangular
holes.

Pretty much like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HoldenOneTonneUte1980.JPG

Upgrading to HQ car bumper and prem/stato panels was very easy. To upgrade
to HJ-on fronts wadn't much harder but needed some panel work to do right.
The panel between the bonnet and windscreen (either side of the vent grille)
needed to be changed to match the different sculpted lines in the bonnet,
then the entire "walk on" front could be fitted. Of course, the front would
fit without changing those panels, it just didn't line up...

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[Ext User(JD)]

quandong nut wrote:

> On 2 Dec 2006 00:39:22 -0800, "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>>Diesel Damo wrote:
>>> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
>>> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
>>> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>>>
>>> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
>>> mechanics/electricians.
>>
>>Fukn! I just remembered where it is a nano second after I pressed the
>>post button.
>>
>>It should be a foot switch on the firewall where the clutch pedal would
>>normally go. Which made it hell when my bro got his HQ Premier
>>converted to a manual.
>
> No more hell than we all grew up with, on all the earlier manual Holdens
> (et
> al). And all the pre-war (#2) stuff that I can recall had the
> floor-mounted
> dipswitch. The idea of mounting the switch on a stalk is a more modern
> eurojap thing.

Earliest manual dip switch I can recall was my fathers 1931 Swift, and there
was also one on a friends 1934 Ford V8 - but floor mounted dip switches
were the norm everywhere until after WW2, when the Europeans first moved
them to the steering column. But they were very rare in Australia until the
seventies.
JD

[Ext User(RainbowWarrior)]

Might also be a foot switch on floor under carpet too

"Neil Gerace" <geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Noddy" <dg4163@(nospam)dodo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:4571471f@news.comindico.com.au...
>>
>> "Diesel Damo" <Diesel_4WD@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:1165048523.950463.128450@16g2000cwy.googlegro ups.com...
>>> If I pull the light knob out one notch, the dash lights come on but
>>> nothing else. Pull it out another notch and I just get normal beam. Is
>>> that how it's meant to work? If so, where's the high beam switch?
>>
>> The first notch on the switch is supposed to be the parkers.
>>
>>> I think this ute has had 100 previous owners, all of them bush
>>> mechanics/electricians.
>>
>> It'd be next to impossible to find such a vehicle that hasn't been
>> subjected to such treatment.
>
> As I recall there were no Premier 1-tonners. They all had two headlights
> and a different grille to the sedans. Though it would have been easy to
> put a quad-headlight Premier nose on afterwards, I'm guessing.
>