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YOUR RESEARCHNeed help removing gearshift knob
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When I installed my short shift kit on my 99 996 I battled pulling the original **** off for about an hour before I threw in the towel and moved onto another project for the day.
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Here's what I used - crudely fashioned from scrap wood I had lying around.
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I used the same approach on my '99 yesterday and it really helped a ton.
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In some cases there will apparently be a set screw securing the **** that must be loosened - but I can find no evidence of such.
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When I installed my short shift kit on my 99 996 I battled pulling the original **** off for about an hour before I threw in the towel and moved onto another project for the day.
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Once you have removed the boot, you can see the shaft, put this long pry bar "V" under the shifter and use a fulcrum point on the console or anything else, use a towel under it, pop it up and it will come off.
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Once you have removed the boot, you can see the shaft, put this long pry bar "V" under the shifter and use a fulcrum point on the console or anything else, use a towel under it, pop it up and it will come off.
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I have a new Ben's Shifter that I'm trying to install in my 2004 C2. Among other steps, this requires removing the existing shifter ****. Which I can't seem to do.
The instructions I've been able to dig up say to unclip the plastic part that holds the bottom of the "boot" surrounding the shift lever, and to pull up that boot - I have done this. In some cases there will apparently be a set screw securing the **** that must be loosened - but I can find no evidence of such.
The next step is said to be simply to pull up on the ****. I have done so, with all the force I can muster - but the **** stays stubbornly in place. I tried clamping a vice-grip to the metal shifter shaft and using this as the base for a pry bar. But the bottom of the shifter **** (under the boot) is soft-ish rubber, so prying doesn't generate much force - certainly not enough to budge the ****.
The best I can report is a tiny about of vertical motion in the ****.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I don't have a picture of it.....but I took a scrap piece of plywood about 30" long and 6" wide and then cut a "V" about 6" deep in one end. Once you have removed the boot, you can see the shaft, put this long pry bar "V" under the shifter and use a fulcrum point on the console or anything else, use a towel under it, pop it up and it will come off. Once you get it off the first time, you can easily pop it the next time.
You can try that... or pull harder.
When I installed my short shift kit on my 99 996 I battled pulling the original **** off for about an hour before I threw in the towel and moved onto another project for the day. Came back to the short throw install about a week later, pulled so hard I felt like king arthur when the **** finally came off. Good Luck!
Try alternately pulling it off from 2nd gear and pushing while it's in reverse
and rock the **** a bit
There is no screw, but they are quite tight
Paul's leverage idea is excellent too !!
This idea worked - many thanks.
I measured the width of the lower part of the shift **** (~1.25"), then took a piece of scrap wood (about 18" x 4" x 1") and cut a slot in one end (about 1.25" by 2"). With this and a makeshift fulcrum, I levered the **** off.
Based on the effort needed even with this leverage, there was absolutely no way I could have succeeded simply by pulling on the ****.
When they say right in the workshop manual that it will be hard to get off, you know that's a strong hint. It says it will take up to 90lbs of effort to pull it off.
Glad it worked and thanks for the tip! Someone post a picture of the plywood special service tool.
I tried almost everything.
The last attempt will be to ask THOR to come to my garage and using his strength to help me on that...
probably I will go for a lever and fulcrum...
Twist clockwise and anti-clockwise whilst pulling on it.
The rubber it�s formed from will deform and come away from the lever. Just make sure your face/head isn�t in line with the shift **** when it breaks loose .. !!
I don't know if its helpful or not, but I saw a guy on YouTube put the shifter into 4th and then pull straight back and it came off relatively smoothly. I used the same approach on my '99 yesterday and it really helped a ton. Something about the angle you're pulling at.
Finally I could get it out!!!!
How? Just 3 seconds of strength after heating the area properly
I used a professional heat gun
(something similar to this one. A very good friend of mine helped on this matter)
