[AMC-List] E-stick

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

I have a 62 American TSM that I've never looked at, ever
(I bought it for super cheap in a used bookstore Just
Because). Thogut I'd take a look at the E-Stick setup.

What a complication! I'm sure it works OK if you drive it right
and everything is like-new, but man it's complicated! There's
all sorts of little interlocking servos and switches to get it
to behave; low hot-oil pressure, hard accell, decell, wear, you
name it there's a spring, cam switch, lever and diaphragm for it.

It's got it's own bell housing, oil pump, some clutch parts,
cables, parts, pieces and it's own steering column. It would be
harder to retrofit than air conditioning or auto to manual trans,
in the treasure hunt of insignificant and obscure hard parts.

I sure would love to have one for a while though. You don't
get much more 1950's than that.

Maybe Twin-Stick, aluminum engine, E-stick, hell, throw in a
Studey Hill Holder. Now there's a combo for a lot of weekend tune
ups. I doubt the E-stick is compatible with overdrive though.

There's an excellent out-of-the-car factory photo of the
E-stick equipped engine/trans assembly in the 62 American TSM
frontispiece.  (How often do you get to use THAT word.)

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