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Location: Olympia, Washington (73.42.182.228) | Shifter knobs, fancy, wood or stock simply does not agree with what I have sticking out of my dash. It is 3/16" steel 1 1/4" wide with a 2" long slot down the middle sticking about 6" out of the dash. How do you screw on a knob to that? I suppose you could bolt together a 'T' handle through the slot. I never thought it odd before but talk of 'shifter knobs' has got me curious is this stock or a PO mod? Thanks | |
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Location: Medford, OR (75.142.8.77) | Reads kinda like a tuning fork George! Start an album for 506 so we can see your knob (shifter knob). Lol | |
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Location: Ignacio Colorado (72.161.116.188) | Some of the original shift levers broke and were replaced with home made levers. My #412 parts coach has a lever that was replaced with a homemade lever. It is solid and was made to use the stock knob. Good thing as it still had the original wooden knob that now shifts #902.
Why did the original levers brake? My money is on lack of proper park brake use.
Bill | |
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Location: Cottage Grove, OR (97.94.227.253) | The original shifter levers were made of "pot metal" and started breaking early on. A machined one was developed and many/most of them have been replaced by either the one sold by RVS and MCR or by owner built ones. | |
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Location: Olympia, Washington (73.42.182.228) | Close the end of the fork and round it over that's pretty much it. The slot has rounded ends and takes up about a 1/3 of the 1 1/4". On closer inspection inside the dash it is definitely home built but a real nice job works perfectly fits the different gear notches. It lacks a good hand feel and it's not real pretty. I guess I'll go find a camera and take a picture of it. | |
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Location: Olympia, Washington (73.42.182.228) | Added more pictures to the "506 Shifter" album. The lever appears to be hand made from a bicycle part. In the process I discovered 506's secret identity written in marker on the under side of the dash. Has anyone else found a similar miss match on their coach. | |
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Location: Olympia, Washington (73.42.182.228) | Good eye Dan! I couldn't quite place it, too big, hole too small for a coaster brake lever. Just tell me you were looking at the training wheels first. There is nothing wrong with the shifter it works perfect, just hard to fit a handle. Whoever made it did good work had to be ground down to fit the gate and a spring to keep it there. | |
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Location: Medford, OR (75.142.8.77) | I think it's awesome! I wish I had the talent to build a shifter for an FMC out of an old kids bicycle training wheel! You could modify the end of it at put a Schwinn shifter knob on it? That's something I could "handle". Lol | |
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