Re: Need info : ' 66 Rambler American turn signal pawls in column- GM? Interchange?New?

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 oconner_us@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Are you talking about the turn signal cam (cancels the turn signal after completing the turn)? I need one for my 66 american also but have found that all of the ones in the junk yards around here are also broken. Have not checked parts stores for availability but someone always seems to have at least one available on ebay. Good luck.

It's a materials issue -- it's safe to say NONE of the used ones
will ever be any good. In fact, nearly no NOS ones will be any
good. The particular nylon used self-degrades with time, plain and
simple.

You'll need to find recently-manufactured ones, which is of course
nearly impossible; occasional old-time parts stores might have
bagged replacements made on the 1970's, but that's about it.

There are some parts that are practically-speaking impossible to
find. Some parts you can fabricate, but that canceller would be
tough.  It might be easier to re-engineer the problem, or find a
switch assembly that can be modified to fit.

Been all through this with my 63 classic.

Someone got a CNC machine? :-)

The GM parts are better in that they will be more-recently

manufactured and might be a different material.