How's a Mopar 8-track work?

[FY1Cuda]

Maybe this is too old-school for the "Audio" department, but...
We have a dusty 70 Mopar 8-track player that has some issues--like a broken volume control for one, but what I'm wondering is: How is it supposed to work.  I thought there should be a button or something that changes the track, but I don't see anything like that. It seems to switch tracks by itself when it gets to the end of the tape.  Also, the only thing that seems to allow the cartridge to be ejected is to cut the power to the unit.  Is there another way?  If anyone knows the answer to these pressing queries, I'd like to know too. Thanks

[bb71challenger]

Been a LONG time since I messed with an 8-track but there should be a way to change to the seperate tracks, 4 of them right? I was a child last time I listened to one and since I am 39 I am sure you understand it was a while ago  By the way, this was an add on unit so it may not even compare 

[MEK-Dangerfield]

Does the player have the knob on the lower left? I thought that was for switching to another track. Just push it in... 


  Mike

[FY1Cuda]

MEK solves the mystery. I found a picture of one on a website for Ward's Classic Radio Repair and there IS a knob on the lower left. The problem is that ours has only a hole on the lower left, so I guess there was once a knob there. Thanks.  And thanks for the your input too, bb7.

[MEK-Dangerfield]

Have fun trying to find that knob.   

[Lunchbox]

Have fun trying to find that knob.   

 

I bought a real nice 70 thunbwheel 8-track for my R22 car and it was missing the knob. You had to remove the knob to get the radio out and seems like for the most part they went missing at that point.

I searched for 2 years for that knob and in those two years found 2 on ebay. One went for over $50 and the other NOS one I picked up for $25-30 if I remember right. Heck I used to look for old junk mopar radios just for the knob to no avial, never really did find out if they were the same.

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