Please ignore the older replies below. The. AMC 5speed tyranny conversion Dale
did. I need his number or the Year and or if it's a Ford tranny that he used so
I can try to find/have one when I pull the broken one. Tia. TtT
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Tony McNulty <bamcnulty@optonline.net> wrote:
>Jay:
>
>On electrical contact surfaces like these you should use really fine
>burnishing material -- like crocus cloth. This is what we used to use on
>high current electrical contacts back in the 60's. The idea is not to
>"sand", but to"burnish". You want to polish the surface, not sand it. Even
>tooth paste (properly cleaned off afterward) is a better burnishing abrasive
>than even the "best" sandpaper -- although the abrasive papers available
>from 3M for polishing chisel and plane blades (look up "scary sharp") would
>be OK for polishing electrical contacts.
>
>Good advise it to use your ignition switch to activate a heavy duty relay to
>pass the high current (40 - 60 Amps) to the load, in this case, the starter
>or its solenoid.
>
>Tony McNulty
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jay Laifman" <jay.laifman@gmail.com>
>To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:46 AM
>Subject: [Tigers] Ignition Switch
>
>
>>I pulled apart my ignition switch. It was pretty easy. As indicated, just
>> pry out two of the points on the can that are pressed in, hold towel to
>> finger
>> to stop bleeding from screwdriver slipping out of indentation point and
>> into
>> the finger, put switch in vice, lightly clamping around nut, and finish
>> last
>> indentation point.
>>
>> Put in key, press ice pick in hole in side to release lock barrel.
>>
>> Pull apart.
>>
>> The switch is much more beefy than I expected. It has a strong spring and
>> is
>> built of large, thick metal for contacts. I'm actually kind of surprised
>> that
>> it has any issue. But, I've cleaned it up and sanded all the contacts. I
>> basically put a piece of fine sandpaper in between each of the three
>> contact
>> points and rotated the sandpaper back and forth, and rotated the contact
>> to
>> each of the three positions to get each one. This probably makes no sense
>> unless you have one open in your hands. I was thinking of dremel, but
>> none of
>> my attachments are small enough to fit in there.
>>
>> I'm also cleaning and sanding the tabs out the back that the wires attach
>> to.
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