How do I remove the gear knob?
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Nothing on these cars is easy or obvious!!
How do i remove the gear knob?
From what I can see there might be two ways
1 - the actual knob unscrews - but there seesm to be glue stopping it at the moment.
2 - There is an allen key bit under a metal base and then the knob and 'stalk' all come off together?
I'm attempting to repair/replace the gearstick gater.......
Will get picture up....
How do i remove the gear knob?
From what I can see there might be two ways
1 - the actual knob unscrews - but there seesm to be glue stopping it at the moment.
2 - There is an allen key bit under a metal base and then the knob and 'stalk' all come off together?
I'm attempting to repair/replace the gearstick gater.......
Will get picture up....
Pulled my knob off on Thursday!
It was in need of a good polish and some scratches to remove. It was pretty easy, pulled the gaiter down then gripped the lower part and simply turned the knob anti-clockwise.
After sorting the scratches out with various very very fine wet and dry I found a bolt to screw into it, put it in a bench drill chuck on low revs and used some metal polish on it. Now it's nice and shiny again so I did the handbrake handle too just for good measure!
It was in need of a good polish and some scratches to remove. It was pretty easy, pulled the gaiter down then gripped the lower part and simply turned the knob anti-clockwise.
After sorting the scratches out with various very very fine wet and dry I found a bolt to screw into it, put it in a bench drill chuck on low revs and used some metal polish on it. Now it's nice and shiny again so I did the handbrake handle too just for good measure!
I guess yours is the same but just does not have the retaining collar and the knob is just screwed right down, never tried to on mine, so dunno if the thread is long enough or not. My chim also had the collar.
It looks like the allen key bolt is nothing to do with the knob, but you may be able to remove the larger bottom off the stick to allow you to change the gaitor.
It looks like the allen key bolt is nothing to do with the knob, but you may be able to remove the larger bottom off the stick to allow you to change the gaitor.
Hey Whitey!
Can I use those pics to add that as a walkthrough on www.mytuscan.co.uk?
ETA - I found something strange wrong with my knob yesterday! The knob part had moved a bit and facing the wrong way, so I was attempting to move it around by unscrewing it. As I turned it, the whole gearstick kinda moved to a different place. I can't easily describe it - imagine unscrewing the top part and the whole shaft turning and moving over to the left, so changing to first gear, the stick was almost leaning against the handbrake. Does that make sense!? I turned it back and all was well, but now the knob on top is loose!
Cheers!
J
Can I use those pics to add that as a walkthrough on www.mytuscan.co.uk?
ETA - I found something strange wrong with my knob yesterday! The knob part had moved a bit and facing the wrong way, so I was attempting to move it around by unscrewing it. As I turned it, the whole gearstick kinda moved to a different place. I can't easily describe it - imagine unscrewing the top part and the whole shaft turning and moving over to the left, so changing to first gear, the stick was almost leaning against the handbrake. Does that make sense!? I turned it back and all was well, but now the knob on top is loose!
Cheers!
J
Edited by BigJL on Tuesday 6th May 11:40
Whitey said:
I guess yours is the same but just does not have the retaining collar and the knob is just screwed right down, never tried to on mine, so dunno if the thread is long enough or not. My chim also had the collar.
It looks like the allen key bolt is nothing to do with the knob, but you may be able to remove the larger bottom off the stick to allow you to change the gaitor.
Thanks for peoples help. Managed to clean and re-fix gater without removing knob....I did not want to break the glue seal unnecessarily.It looks like the allen key bolt is nothing to do with the knob, but you may be able to remove the larger bottom off the stick to allow you to change the gaitor.
Quite disturbing how much dirt I managed to clean off my car this weekend!!
Whitey said:
Bigjl thats fine. There is a grub screw at the bottom of the main shaft that ha probably come loose on yours.
Cheers!Bugger... does that mean I'm gonna have to take the whole cover off to get to it? I guess I'd better do it sooner rather than later otherwise the gearstick'll fall apart while I'm driving!
jilapau said:
How does one get the leather "gaitor" out for replacement?
By following the above steps - gotta take your knob off!Also got to remove entire centre consol - pull out coin holder (only recently found out you can do this - just though you dropped coins into the gearbox!) - screw underneath.
Pull out rear vent - screw underneath
carefully remove console.
How is the colour match on your new gator - was it easy to find?
Whilst we're all talking about our knobs 
mine gets really hot after driving for a while. I know there was a known problem on early models (mine's a late 2001) that required a heat sink to overcome it but I don't know if mines been done. I can still touch it but wouldn't like to sit with my hand on the knob for any length of time.
Does the knob still get hot even if the heat sink has been done? Is it a simple thing to fix?
mine gets really hot after driving for a while. I know there was a known problem on early models (mine's a late 2001) that required a heat sink to overcome it but I don't know if mines been done. I can still touch it but wouldn't like to sit with my hand on the knob for any length of time.Does the knob still get hot even if the heat sink has been done? Is it a simple thing to fix?
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