Help!!! Losing the Battle With My Shift Knob!
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Help!!! Losing the Battle With My Shift ****!
Hey everyone - well i got a new shift **** from UPR (for splined shifters)for my '06 and went to take off the old one after lots of reading on how to do so on here and im having a helluva time. I first heated it up with a hair dryer and pulled till my eyes almost popped out and the thing didnt budge - then i put an adjustible wrench under it and hit up with a hammer as hard as i could and still no luck. Then i went to home depot and rented a hot air gun, cut off the outher rubber part so now its just white plastic - and went to town on it with the hot air gun, pulling and hammering along the way - it got so how the plastic started to melt so now all i have is a white half melted blob on the end of my shifter and no matter what i cannot get it off - what can i do!?!?!?! Im thinking of just getting a new shift arm and replacing the whole thing because this sucker is on for good (or so it seems)! Thanks for the help and ideas guys.
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when you say metal under the plastic do you mean just in 'the ball' - like the shift arm isnt glued to the metal? If so how did u get the metal off the shift arm - also how did u melt it all off without screwing up your shift boot because if you heated it that much wouldnt the arm get hot and melt the shift boot lower down? Thanks for the help.
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If i had a standered truck i would have to make it a short throw so your not shifting from 1st to 2nd going 1ft.....but i would take a torch and heat up the rod.....by getting it hot the glue will melt, and it will come off.......if you just heat the plastic up it will melt and nothing will get the glue hot...
When i had my car i took the shifter off, cut it in like 4 pieces and moved the pivot point up 2inchs, and made it a really short throw. We also did it on my friends s10
Rocky
When i had my car i took the shifter off, cut it in like 4 pieces and moved the pivot point up 2inchs, and made it a really short throw. We also did it on my friends s10
Rocky
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hey guys thanks for the help - my only worry is that if i do take off the shift arm there is no way to the get the boot off of it because it gets fatter lower down so if i heat up the arm with a torch to get the ball off than wherever the rubber boot is touching the arm it will melt too - any ideas? May just have to do it and get a redline....this is turning into a pain in the @#$
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Brady,
This is what I did for my '05.
Heat the plastic again. Then get a friend to hold the shift arm in place, preventing it from twisting while you try to turn what's left of the **** with a big pair of pliers or pipe wrench. It'll need to be twisted off clockwise, but take it slowly.
Try it, it worked easily for me.
This is what I did for my '05.
Heat the plastic again. Then get a friend to hold the shift arm in place, preventing it from twisting while you try to turn what's left of the **** with a big pair of pliers or pipe wrench. It'll need to be twisted off clockwise, but take it slowly.
Try it, it worked easily for me.
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ya my shifter on my 98 popped off shifting into second. I epoxyed it on, bad idea, especially when I went to replace my transfer case(much easier to get the bolts up top from inside the cab). I had to take a big pair of chanell locks and just twist as someone held it, it broke, but we were able to get it off. now I have the hurst shifter super glued on.lol
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ya i just went to home depot and got the biggest pair of vice grips they had - clamped onto that lil' som'B and twisted untill it hurt - eventually it just cracked and came right off (did all this in the homedepot parking lot then returned the vice grips haha) - ill post pics of the new one this week...thanks for the help guys...
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