GP relay card mounting...

[taildragger03]

I have noticed in multiple pictures of CUCV's, the the GP relay card box just seems to hang under the dash. How was the card box mounted originally?

 

[Reverend Evil]

Good question i have always seen them loose or freshly ziptied to the e brake assembly even when i was in the Army they were never attached . i want to know also.

 

[Randy]

A plastic push pin "christmas tree" slides into a track on the back of the relay control card box and pushes into a hole on or near the steering column bracket. When you remove the box the pin stays with the bracket up under the dash and I have never been able to reattach the box without getting a pair of pliers and pulling the pin out of the bracket first. It's a pain so most folks may not do it, and the box just hangs. I'd bet the push pin is almost always still there.

 

[SimonG]

That sounds like a pain, there has to be a good way to re-attach

 

[Terracoma]

I'd bet the push pin is almost always still there.

I went out and looked, and sure enough...

There it was.

 

[ODdave]

A plastic push pin "christmas tree" slides into a track on the back of the relay control card box and pushes into a hole on or near the steering column bracket. When you remove the box the pin stays with the bracket up under the dash and I have never been able to reattach the box without getting a pair of pliers and pulling the pin out of the bracket first. It's a pain so most folks may not do it, and the box just hangs. I'd bet the push pin is almost always still there.

Now thats some usefull info. Thanks for the read

 

[CROM]

Excellent!

 

[edpdx]

Use a square of the Heady Duty Velcro. But the fuzzy side about 1.25"sq and the other side smaller- about 3/4"sq. Clean the surfaces with alcohol. Apply the smaller square to the GP "box". This makes removing (separating) them an easy task and you wont end up pulling one off by the adhesive back.