[Shotimes] Re: Re: ATX shifter button goes bazoing!

[fwhittle@mindspring.com]

You can use one from a Thunderbird, I just don't know what years.  I had one on eBay a while ago that only went for $10.  Another temporary "fix" that I used for a while was to drill a hole through the part of the button that sticks out of the shifter, then run a leather cord through it and tie it around the shifter to keep it from popping out.  When you remove the shifter handle, be sure to remove the O/D button and button socket before you remove the long white plastic contact piece from inside the shifter.  Otherwise, you'll bend the contacts on the button and any used shifter you buy will probably have bent contacts too.

Frank Whittle
'95 ATX

From: "ROBERT SCHIRMER" <1surferbum@msn.com>
To: <rick@pitroadproducts.com>, <shotimes@autox.team.net>,
  <MonsieurBoo@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: ATX shifter button goes bazoing!
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:56:07 -0400

OK, with all of these temporary fixes mentioned, is there a PERMANENT FIX for
the ATX button problem?? Is this an item you can get at the dealer, or from a
junk yard (that does not have SHO's)??
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  To: rick@pitroadproducts.com<mailto:rick@pitroadproducts.com> ;
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  Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 5:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: ATX shifter button goes bazoing!


  Rick:  "My '94 ATX was like that for years, I just got used to carefully
  placing that little black button beside the shifter (on the indicator) once
the
  car was in gear and just picked it up and put it back in there when I needed
to
  shift.... That's a great theft deterrent....I could park that SHO anywhere,
  anytime, and leave it running with windows down, without that little button,
  that car ain't going nowhere."


  Gee, in that case maybe I better get out my Dremel tool and mill one from
  billet, do it right!

  Cheers,
  Mark LaBarre
  94 ATX 125k
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