Another "What is it?"

[DomSmith]

Found this in my pile of parts and can't remember what the hell it is!!! Anyone?

 

[FJ45KC]

looks like a creative shifter handle to me.

 

[largenfirm]

That's the wangler knob for a 1956 Chevy straight 6 defrugalator. That's a primo plastic handle on that one - they're usually darkened from the heat, and cracked. NOS?

I saw one go for $195 on eBay last week. Wish I'd kept mine...

Kirk

 

[nuclearlemon]

someone's homegrown version of a transfer case shifter

 

[DomSmith]

I thought I remember seeing it in an old LC catalog I have collecting dust in the garage... Downey, SOR, MAF, Hickey... somewhere....

 

[Bret]

I don't recall seeing that particular defrugalator on my 69 Chevy I-6...must of been phased out. But if the spacing is right you might be able to use it to hold the flange on the transfer case output so you can tighten the nut.

 

[Degnol]

It is a sextoy...definitely a marital aid. Either a Clito-spanner or a Mudcutter Torque wrench.
IMHO
Ed

 

[sherwood]

Having spent 14 years in the medical equipment business, I'd know that one anywhere.
It's a proctological exam device.... an exploratory sphincter instrument. It's for testing run-out.

Hell... If I was on the procto table and saw that, I'd run out for sure !!!

john

 

[IDave]

It is a sextoy...definitely a marital aid. Either a Clito-spanner or a Mudcutter Torque wrench.
IMHO
Ed

Hell, it looks like an instrument of Dentistry to me!

 

[largenfirm]

I don't recall seeing that particular defrugalator on my 69 Chevy I-6...must of been phased out.

Yup, they were only used on the 1954 1/2 through 1962 235's, the engine that was "metricized" to produce the F engine.

Long gone by 1969.

The F engine, of course, didn't need the defrugalator...

Kirk