‘28 Emergency Brake and Shift Tower Question
 

Rebuilding my ‘28 shift tower that has the E Brake located above the shifter. Trying to pull the racket plate off of it and it looks to only be held on by one large head slotted bolt.

So help me I can not seem to remove that bolt. It will easily spin about 1/4 turn then really locks up hard like there’s a set screw on something holding it in place.

Almost like the bushings are capturing the plate and the screw is almost trying to extract the plate and the bushing.

Is there any trick to this or do I grab my impact screw driver?

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Re: ‘28 Emergency Brake and Shift Tower Question
 

Is the ratchet damaged? Do you really have a need to remove it?

Re: ‘28 Emergency Brake and Shift Tower Question
 

Removing it to clean and refinish the tower. I was also going to clean and nickel plate the rachet plate.

Re: ‘28 Emergency Brake and Shift Tower Question
 

Answer is no. It’s just the screw. Just used a large screwdriver with a wrench on the handle to turn it. Just posting the follow up in case anyone searches for this in he future. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f22d40902f.jpg

Re: ‘28 Emergency Brake and Shift Tower Question
 

An impact screwdriver, that you hit with a hammer, is a good tool to remove large screws such as this when a normal screwdriver will not work.

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"impact screwdriver, that you hit with a hammer"; should come with a large dose of common sense. Working around castings, ya don't want to go gorilla on it. Just saying, been there done that.