Re: {Chrysler 300} new 300 item/ part ; to be listed on Fowardlookparts.com

[RON WATERS <ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I pulled a bunch of these from parts cars so I'd have a collection of not only the potmetal pieces, but those odd-shaped springs and small springy pieces of metal that are all needed to make this complicated switch work properly.

As a side note, the 55 and presumably 56 switches are similar but not the same, IIRC. The stalk on my 55 Desoto (and Chrysler I assume) is a heavy chromed steel beast, where repeated pressure could crack the pot metal. I have a light weight aluminum stalk from a Plymouth which has the same thread pitch. So that is what's being used now.

Ron

On 03/03/2022 4:02 PM John Grady <jkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After a lot of work, we have succeeded in milling on our CNC a solid billet aluminum replacement for the fragile circular diecast switch actuator piece in every Mopar 57 -59 turn signal switch. This is the 'Top Layer" of that switch that the turn signal stalk screws into ; That complicated die cast  ring is easily broken by excessive accidental  force on the stalk. Of 5 cars I have had of that vintage, two of these  were broken. 

Because of a long process time commitment for each one on our Matsuura CNC , (it is milled all over) we would first like to gauge interest, and so the first group will have a 3-4 week  lead time .

At this time it will cost about 95 each, plus shipping, due to the long machining  time.. Tell your mopar friends, the more we can  make the more other things we can support. A 300C, D ,E  with no turn signals and a flopping lever is not a happy camper...

I personally spent many hours trying to repair broken ones, I have never succeeded, and then six months looking for a good one , available in mopar repair  kits of the period , or from junked cars.  To get it out requires pulling the wheel on a junk car, if you find a still good one in the woods!  . 

Thanks for interest,

 John  Grady 

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