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01-14-2019, 09:23 AM | #1 |
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Gear shift boot removal
How do you remove the rubber gear shift boot?
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01-14-2019, 09:42 AM | #2 |
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Re: Gear shift boot removal
What?!
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01-14-2019, 09:54 AM | #3 |
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Re: Gear shift boot removal
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.
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01-15-2019, 11:30 AM | #4 |
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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.
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01-15-2019, 12:11 PM | #5 |
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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.
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01-18-2019, 11:46 AM | #6 |
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01-18-2019, 11:48 AM | #7 |
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Re: Gear shift boot removal
You have to unscrew the shift knob from the shaft to remove it... hasn't been said yet.
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01-18-2019, 12:12 PM | #8 |
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01-18-2019, 01:42 PM | #9 |
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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
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01-18-2019, 03:10 PM | #10 |
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