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Old 12-03-2006, 04:42 PM
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Safety Cancel?

My 86 P/U has a button on the dash that says "Safety Cancel"
Anyone know what that does?
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Old 12-03-2006, 04:53 PM
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Is it maybe the same thing as the clutch start cancel?
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:50 PM
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idk, I'll try that tomorrow
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:54 PM
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my 87 has the same thing. Mine is modified thoguh so you have to press it to start the truck. It is the same thing as the clutch start cancel
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when your key is in the on postion and safety cancel is on, you're able to start the truck without pushing the clutch down.
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Old 12-04-2006, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ToyYoda
when your key is in the on postion and safety cancel is on, you're able to start the truck without pushing the clutch down.
Just make sure it's in neutral though
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Old 12-04-2006, 06:29 PM
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thats kind of an odd feature
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Careful! The safty cancel button turns your truck into an animal! Just kidding, it's if you should happen to stall out climbing a hill in 4low in 1st and instead of trying to reapply the clutch and slipping down the hill, you simply use the starter to get her moving and fired up again. I use it to warm her up without having to climb in and push in the clutch.
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Old 12-05-2006, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by eric-the-red
Just make sure it's in neutral though
And it's exciting when it's not!
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Wow! Hey i was just gunna post the same exact question. I couldn't figure out what that silly thing was, i'd press it while the truck was already started and it wouldn't go off unless i turned the truck off. I thought i would have a good one for the tech's too...
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And it's exciting when it's not!
if its in reverse and standing in the cleft of the door its scary as pee
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Originally Posted by jusfloorit
Careful! The safty cancel button turns your truck into an animal! Just kidding, it's if you should happen to stall out climbing a hill in 4low in 1st and instead of trying to reapply the clutch and slipping down the hill, you simply use the starter to get her moving and fired up again. I use it to warm her up without having to climb in and push in the clutch.
but you still have to use the clutch to shift right? it's not a manual/auto tranny conversion button right?



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Originally Posted by jusfloorit
Careful! The safty cancel button turns your truck into an animal! Just kidding, it's if you should happen to stall out climbing a hill in 4low in 1st and instead of trying to reapply the clutch and slipping down the hill, you simply use the starter to get her moving and fired up again. I use it to warm her up without having to climb in and push in the clutch.

ding! ding! ding!

And on the subject of warming up... I used to pop my TC in neutral and my tranny in 5th (turns the slowest). So when I got out to it, my truck was warm and so was my engine and tranny...

Before, I'd get harder shifting from the thicker fluid until it warned up...


And yes, I am in the "too lazy to get in my truck to push the clutch in" category
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it just allows you to start the truck without pressing in the clutch. you can also use it to get you a short distance with the starter if your craps out motor on you. hell i've seen a couple low geared trucks use the starter to climb up rocks..

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I've used it where i need my foot on the gas, and my foot on the brake. Like if i was flooded on a steep hill.
And it's a great way to stay in shape!
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it just allows you to start the truck without pressing in the clutch. you can also use it to get you a short distance with the starter if your craps out motor on you. hell i've seen a couple low geared trucks use the starter to climb up rocks..

I have done UNREAL stuff with my OEM starters... IMO, there is no other starter... Denso's are tha bomb! Every other starter only wishes they were a Denso...
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Originally Posted by peow130
And it's a great way to stay in shape!
I wonder if anyone else will get that?
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Originally Posted by mattaway
I wonder if anyone else will get that?
I did hahaha
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Originally Posted by Redeyejedi
but you still have to use the clutch to shift right? it's not a manual/auto tranny conversion button right?



Clutches are for nooobs Float the gears!
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Originally Posted by mattaway
I wonder if anyone else will get that?
I laughed. and Jay, when you say float the gears, you mean shifting without the clutch right? I can do that, I always wondered if it was real bad for your tranny or not..
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