How do I remove the gear knob?

[da_murphster]

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....

[da_murphster]

Right.....

Option one - unscrew here (asume would break glue seal and would need some gripping device....



Option two - unscrew allen key (would have to buy key from somewhere)



And a new option three......something has obvious been used to grip here - can it unscrew here?

[da_murphster]

Cheers Whitey....mine does look a bit different though?!

Might try and fix it with it in place....

[da_murphster]

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.

Quite disturbing how much dirt I managed to clean off my car this weekend!!

[da_murphster]

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?