Re: [Amc-list] Twin Stick shift knob replacements

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

How do you find this carp!
Geez, it took me forever to weed out the overpriced crap and order radio install gear to put a head unit in the 98 Altima and an antenna adapter to allow me to put my 4 disc indash Chrysler Cd changer into the WJ...

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> The twin stick knobs on my American were shot, all stripped out. I've been 
> unable to find a replacement for the one with the pushbutton.
> 
> But MSC Direct (www.mscdirect.com) has "phenolic ball knobs" that work. One 
> just screws on to the 5/8-18 thread (#00583740, $1.53 each) but is 2" 
> diameter. The original is 1.5".
> 
> They have 1.5" balls, but not with 5/8-18 thread. You could bore one out 
> and tap it yourself, the tap will cost more than the balls! The catalog 
> page URL is below.
> 
> They have red ones too!
> 
> I made one of the 2" jobs into the "Twin Stick" ball with the pushbutton, 
> it took about 20 minutes. I located the top center of the ball, drilled a 
> 1/8" pilot hole down into the tapped cavity. Chucked up a big (1") drill 
> bit and used the 118 degree tip to make the depression (no pic here, but if 
> you have Twin Stick you know what I mean; pics in the TSM). Then I bored it 
> out for the button itself, I think it was letter U drill.
> 
> This leaves too much meat for the button to protrude; so I drilled some 
> plastic out of the bottom of the tapped cavity with a 5/8" bit til it 
> "looked right" poking through the top. Drill, test, drill, test...
> 
> OK, but with a 2" ball the button doesn't reach the switch mechanism. I 
> simply cut a short length of rigid plastic to the length to make up the 
> difference.
> 
> 
> I also bought balls of other sizes to replace all the knobs in the car with!
> 
> Catalog page:
> 
> <http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNPDFF?PMPAGE=1209&PMITEM=00583492&PMCTLG=00>
> 
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