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| | | | Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 163 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 163 | I recently bought a 3 speed transmission for my 1947 1/2 ton truck. The guy I bought it from told me it did not have a shift knob. I told him not to worry because I have 2 - 4 speed knobs. Well when I got the transmission the shifter does not have any sign of threads on it to have a knob screw onto it. My neighbor said that these trucks had a pinch clamp on the side that held the shift knob on with. Is this true or did the threads get cut off somewhere in the past?
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | Have you tried tapping it yet? I had to cut and realign mine and them buggers are made out of some hard stuff. If you can't cut threads into it maybe you can weld something softer onto it. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Those levers were forged from a high alloy steel otherwise they would have been bent all over the place with that much leverage avalable.
I'd have to agree with your last idea Vern, welding a bolt would now doubt be the easiest. Before you could thread the tip it
would have to be machined to size other wise getting a die on it would be an impossibility.
DG
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Not all knobs were screw on. My '38 is a shove on knob, held in place by the friction between the rubber and shaft. You can buy repop shove on knobs. <CLICK>
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Here is a 47-53 3-speed shifter knob (was this knob maroon for all those years)? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 428 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 428 | Hi Tim,
The short answer is no. The shift knobs were maroon for just three or four years. IF I remember correctly they were maroon for 51, 52, and 53. Plus all the knobs were maroon, shift, hood vent, door handle, ash tray, and the rest of them on the dash. The hardest one for me to find was the maroon ash tray knob. | | |
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