samurai_k

Nice work macgyver!

911PERVY

If only I had 6 books!

nine9six

How about straddling the gear shift, putting the 2 x 4 on top of your thighs, using your leg muscles.

IainM

Whoa
TMI

Foxman

Thanks for all the replies - LMAO Indeed, one of the best uses of Massachusetts Decisions.

Will have to try this method with the wife some time - Ha!

pp000830

Great thread! Convinced me to never take my car's shift **** off.
I did at one time make a custom skirt out of yellow leather and clipped it over the existing boot. I used coathanger wire to form a hoop that snapped into the shifter well right over the original skirt. Looks great, has been very durable and is completely reversible without the use of tools.
Andy.

nine9six

You will probably want to leave the gear shift **** ON, then. I'm jus sayin...

silverlock

Necro-ing this thread: does the shifter need to be in neutral?

I have a Tip with the rosewood shifter. Shift button off (easy). No matter how much I pull I can’t get the shift **** off.

No set screw. Applied some (mild) heat with a hairdryer for a couple of minutes too. No luck.

Foxman

I’m not a tip guy, but I did read shift to neutral before removing.

silverlock

The problem: the car needs to be on for that to work :-) Trying to understand how neutral matters on a tip / how there would be any kind of interlock between the shaft & the ****...

Foxman

By the way, if it is anything like the 993 here’s a little “tip” to make the job easier. See my post Here

I’ve posted so many little technical aids like this, I hope they prove helpful.

Foxman

Agreed, so don’t see how neutral matters and it wasn’t mentioned in another post. I think it’s just a stubborn press fit. Try my lever solution, and save yourself a punch in the chin. Ask me how I know, ha.

Foxman

You do need to unscrew the center button…

95_993

Always helpful. Some of your threads are the best Jim

silverlock

That part was easy ;-)

Going to carefully try a heat gun before I move to the BFL (Big ****in’ Lever) approach from your photos…