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chrs1961815 01-14-2019 09:23 AM

Gear shift boot removal
 

How do you remove the rubber gear shift boot?

Jw 01-14-2019 09:42 AM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

What?!

burner31 01-14-2019 09:54 AM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

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If it seems stuck, I've seen where people have secured it under the cover plate.
Just remove the cover plate, shift knob and pull it up and off the lever.

daveymc29 01-15-2019 11:30 AM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

It should just slide up the shifter lever. You obviously need to unscrew the shift knob to get it off the shifter. Someone may have installed a hotrod large dress up ring around it that could be screwed to the floorboard? That would have to be removed.

JBill 01-15-2019 12:11 PM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

If the floormat is installed and the boot is sticking up through it, I can see how it would not be immediately evident how to remove it.

Beater 01-18-2019 11:46 AM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

my boot split in very short order wish there was a better quality option

jwilliams81 01-18-2019 11:48 AM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

You have to unscrew the shift knob from the shaft to remove it... hasn't been said yet.

Y-Blockhead 01-18-2019 12:12 PM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwilliams81 (Post 1717433)
You have to unscrew the shift knob from the shaft to remove it... hasn't been said yet.

See post #4...:rolleyes: "You obviously need to unscrew the shift knob to get it off the shifter."

Joe K 01-18-2019 01:42 PM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

Probably hard Argentinian rubber from the 1950s, now affixed to the chrome plating/rust/whatever.

Use a utility knife and "whittle" it off.

I recently took possession of a Model A engine and some miscellaneous parts which are probably "left overs" of a Model A restoration of the 1960s.

The engine looks like a "keepah" - rusty bore (he didn't put the head back on) but not much ring-ridge. I speculate in my mind this may be a "1st tightening" engine which may have all the original shims? It would be nice.

Other parts included a steering column anti-rattler - in the original plastic wrapper - label typewritten using a typewriter. Rick Freeman and his "How to Restore the Model A" books came to mind.

Bend the wrapper and and anti-rattle rubber inside cracks in two.

That one for trash.

Joe K

jwilliams81 01-18-2019 03:10 PM

Re: Gear shift boot removal
 

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead (Post 1717439)
See post #4...:rolleyes: "You obviously need to unscrew the shift knob to get it off the shifter."

It was hidden I tell you :) Or I am guilty of not reading all of the posts :)


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