After reading 4711 posts all over the internet the consensus seems that the thing to do is heat the **** then pull like hell and hope you don't get hurt when it let's loose. I have a long list of injuries to both arms and my neck from a lifetime of stepping up when I should have stepped back - sure don't need any more. I therefore whipped up the following method - thot I'd cut a fat hog etc.

The idea was to suspend a weight from the ****, heat the **** with 2 heat lamps and wait till the **** just slid off. I hung the lever from a piece of rebar and hung the weights (about 85 pounds) from some hooks off a small bearing puller behind the ****. After 1 hour and 45 minutes it was hot but still on.

So I removed the weights and used a come-along hooked to another rebar near the floor - bent the rebar.

Next I decided to chain the damn thing between 2 trees and use a bigger come-along because no damn **** was going to stop this child. About that time I realized the upper lever is not integral with the lower lever but attached via the rubber dampening material and abandoned the tree concept as potentially expensive. Hell with it.

So I got myself up a good strong one (uh - that's orange juice and whiskey) and ordered a new FX4 shifter.
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Afterwards I peeled back the casing on the **** a bit and the white material underneath seems to be a ceramic. It seems doubtful to me that enough heat would penetrate that stuff to soften the glue or enough to expand the ceramic (if that's what it is). Sorry about the pics, I got this camera 3 days ago ....first thing I learned was you don't hold a digital camera up to your eye to aim.............

 

lol WOW! talk about over the edge..haha

your problem was probably the heat lamps. def. not giving anything close to enough heat to get the **** off. even if they were hot enough, the heat wasn't concentrated enough to be effective. either way..good job for thinkin up a way to get it off...haha,
**** 1...you 0

 

hair drier loosed it the other day but i still had to pull hard but i got it off.

 

Yeah those things are a pain. Love the **** pulling device! lol

 

cant you just cut it off from the rubber? - break the ceramic?

 

I would just cut and chisel. But that's just me

 

I know the later model ***** have a steel core. I completely destroyed mine trying to get it off.

 

just bash it against your head, it will come off eventually.

just kidding dont do that.

 

you are officially an expert **** puller

 

Lucky! I cant even get mine to stay on.

 

Haha, yeah I pull mine off every time I shift into 2nd gear!

 

When I first got my truck I couldn't get it to stay on. And now after I got a skull with red eyes and I gorilla glued it on I can't get it off because I'm selling my truck

 

So umm... grab a 3/4" open wrench, insert over the metal just below the **** - get a BFH and knock it up - works everytime... I had to pop my **** off several times with a BFH





BFH = Big ****ing Hammer