Does anyone know if they make a longer blinker lever or if a longer one from another make will fit? I have a 72 flareside and it just annoys me being that stubby.

Thanks

 

offlimts502 Welcome to and the Bumpside Forum.

Don't have a direct answer, but it is a screw in rod. I would remove it go yarding at a pick & pull match up with other vehicles for length. Should you find one acceptable unscrew it, see if yours will screw back in hole for thread match and give the place fiddy cents for it.

A small adjustable wrench or pliers should work for tools.


John

 

If to long it can snag your shirt sleeve when turning.

Orich

 

I never really took notice to it being to short. I would imagine if you go to long with it you'll start getting things caught and bumping it. Jowilker is right on take it with you and try finding a longer one from the yard. You could also try welding and extending it but not sure if that would just make it brittle or not. Also could try cutting and threading it and make it longer with a coupler of some sort.

 

Thanks, I think I'll take Jowilker's advice and just buy a bunch the next time I'm at a swap meet and just see what fits and go from there.

Thanks

 

I had the opposite problem on my truck. The blinker lever was too long, after I swapped to a steering wheel that was 3" smaller in diameter than my stock '69 steering wheel.

I installed a blinker lever that was 2" shorter than my '69 blinker lever.







....just a finger tip's reach away from the steering wheel.




Length of my old blinker lever compared to the shorter replacement blinker/tilt column lever.




I'm not certain what the threaded diameter and pitch is on the tip of the blinker lever, since a 1/4"-20 or 1/4"-28 die doesn't seem to want to thread up on the tip (?). Unless you can find a vehicle with a steering wheel greater than 17" in diameter, I don't know that you'll find a stock blinker lever longer than the one you already have.

Another alternative, for a professional look, would be to have a machine shop make a lever to the length you are wanting. Trying to swap the **** over may be a major pain, in which case the machine shop could machine the stalk and the **** as all one piece.

 

I'd actually prefer the length of your old lever. My current lever looks even smaller than your small lever now.

 

Using turn signals is a sign of weakness.

 

Ford used the same pitch threads for tons of vehicles and years on the turn signal levers. If yours seems too short I'd bet your PO put a shorter one in there off some other Ford. Just for giggles, how long is the one you have now that seems short?

 

Or a drunkometer.

 

No more effort than it takes to lift your fingers off the steering wheel and push the signal lever either up or down, it ought to be perfectly legal to ****** someone out of their vehicle and beat the crap out of them, for not signaling.

--there's a lot of non-signalers around here and it's really annoying.

 

I'm with you on that one. At times during road construction projects, I'm directing traffic, if your not signaling which way you want to go, I send you the way I want you to go, usually a 5 mile detour. Sometimes I like my job.

 

I'll measure it tomorrow but I think around 3"

 

Mine was too long after I replaced the steering wheel with a smaller one, I jusst threaded in a bolt. I think it was 1/4 fine thread. Looks redneck as hell but then the rest of the truck does too.

 

Yeah, you've got some kind of confunction going on there if the signal lever is only ~3" long (???).

My 'short' turn signal lever is 5" long. My stock signal lever is 7".