Vietnam Skull Shift Knob and Modern Light Switch

Well, figured I'd put up some pictures of the vietnam skull shift knob installed (I think it looks really good).
I also won an ebay auction for a modern light switch (push button with LED indicators) that I recieved and installed tonight. It's awsome! Honestly, so much easier to see what I'm selecting than the three lever switch is.

Here's the skull shift knob:





And here's the new light switch:

Switch Off:


Switch On:


Switch with headlights/driving lights on:



--Wintermute

Cool. I like it. I'm going to mount a grenade for my shifter knob. I also like the light switch. Was it plug and play or did you have to do some modifications?

ARYankee said:

Cool. I like it. I'm going to mount a grenade for my shifter knob. I also like the light switch. Was it plug and play or did you have to do some modifications?

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The grenade shift knob would be cool. I got my shift knob from here:

House O' Speed Hot Rod Store Home Page

Just search for "Leasure" (J. Leasure is the maker of the shift knob I got...he makes a bunch of different ones. I also really like the Doughboy one).

Here's a couple other places that carry his shift knobs:

Hot Rod Speed Company

Results for "Joshua Leasure" Shift Knobs

Installing the switch was pretty much plug and play. Disconnect your batteries, remove the screws from the old connector, unscrew the electrical connector from the back, connect the electrical connector to the new switch, screw the switch back into the dash, then connect the ground line for the new switch off to a good ground (I connected mine to the same ground screw used for my solid state flasher module) and finally, reconnect your batteries and you're good to go.

--Wintermute

Be careful with the digital switch. we had problems with them in our refitted M998 HUMMV. They like to burn up wiring in the older ones that came with the 3 lever switch. they all had to be changed back to the old switch. not sure why my be a voltage problem.

It may have been a grounding problem. Not much steel in a M998

I'll keep an eye on it. But I tested everything with a multimeter after the install and all voltage was spot on.

--Wintermute

Just curious Winternute,,,,how is that shift knob related to Vietnam?

I honestly don't know....that's why I'm asking.

papabear said:

Just curious Winternute,,,,how is that shift knob related to Vietnam?

I honestly don't know....that's why I'm asking.

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It's a stylized interpretation of the vietnam soldier helmet and accoutrements

--Wintermute

OIC....thanks

Your truck has an... "interesting" paint scheme.

I really dig the light switch, tho.

yeah, paint is still what it was painted by the Idaho Dept. of Land Management. It was a brush firetruck before I got it. Won't be stripped and back to CARC until next summer.

--Wintermute