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1940TORPEDO

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  1. Thanks Matt, I will be checking it out over the long weekend.

    Are there any bushings in the shift column itself or are they all in the linkages and pivots? You mentioned Delrin and I have only seen rubber bushings but I have not looked in to the main shift column yet.

     

    Pete, I will check those but I have replaced those within the last year and I do not see much movement of the drive train when torqueing over.

     

     

  2. Backed my car out the other night to go for a cruise and sometime during the cruise I somehow no longer had reverse or first gear.

    It is a 3 speed manual on the column. It shifts great between second and third but I cannot seem to pull the lever towards me to access

    reverse and first.  I'm very unfamiliar with how which linkage adjusts what. I have enclosed an illustration. Any help on where to start

    would be greatly appreciated

     

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  3. Thanks Owen, with headlights on I have excellent power all the way to the lamp. But lose electricity somewhere in the socket housing. It is supposed to work  on inclination of the lamp housing but I get zero volts at the bulb contact point in any trunk position. Once the lamp is removed I can use my test light and make the circuit sometimes by shaking the lamp. 

  4. 9 minutes ago, JACK M said:

    I have heard these referred to as mercury switches.

    The older ones might be balls or similar.

    Maybe you could see any small opening that you could squirt some cleaner into, I do that on switches and use WD40 with good results.

     

    I believe this has the balls. I thought about spraying electrical contact cleaner in there but wasn't sure if it would mess things up. There appears to be a black insulator in there of some sorts, possibly bakelite?WD-40 might do it. Found the photo below that @Grandpa posted back in 2011.

     

     

     

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