removing gear knob

[jaulimsing]

anyone know how to remove the gear knob? i tried pulling it but it feels like i will take the whole gearstick out.

 

[karlj]

Have you tried unscrewing it?

 

[jaulimsing]

a bit, it just feels like i'm going to break it tho.

 

[Guy]

When i took mine off, I had to saw slots into it and crack it off with a huge flat bladed screwdriver. The remnants then had to be mole-gripped off. I doubt you'll get it off any other way .

 

[RobH]

That seems a severe way to get it off. Any other thoughts since the last post?

 

[Blownfuse]

I used a polygrip plier, when I took mine off 2 weeks ago. No cutting, cracking or chiseling.... Just a good plier, and some finger and arm muscles.... But it did´nt just pop off, you got to mean it. (Y)

 

[Seb_]

Some gearknobs are glued AND screwed, some are only screwed and can be removed very easily, it looks like you have a glued one Jaul, you have few solutions if you want to remove it, either heat it, or a good pliers featuring some good muscles from bruxelles

as it's said above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJO5LcWGfk
I.WANT.MUSCLEZZZZZZZZ.
Good luck !

 

[tryme]

"we iz gonna hire de A-team" as ali g would say

 

[RobH]

Removed it today, twisted straight off with a little brute force. No need to cut it and can still be put back on if required. Replaced with leather and alloy knob and new leather gaiter.(Y)

 

[Blownfuse]

Removed it today, twisted straight off with a little brute force. No need to cut it and can still be put back on if required. Replaced with leather and alloy knob and new leather gaiter.(Y)

May I ask ? Gonna do it anyway : Which gaiter have you fitted ? Universal jobbie, og tracked down a Micra-specific one ? Pic please....

 

[RobH]

It's a ripspeed uni fit one from Halfords. Black (real) leather £14.99. http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_253695_langId_-1_categoryId_165732
Removed steel ring from standard one and used it on new one to clip it into opening , fits like it was made for it . Had to replaced gaiter because the old one wasn't long enough.

 

[Stig11477]

is the gear stick threaded, i have a lovely screw on titanium knob in my garage somewhere, it was originally on my prelude, it's a spoon one.

 

[slamdunk]

I went for one of these (actually two, but only because of my own incompetence). http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280553149408

The later K12s with the full length console require some jiggery pokery to get them to fit. But it looks better than a) the factory part and b) my first attempt!

Slam

 

[xABANDONx]

did this the other day, i recevied a leather Nismo top from japan, found a much simple to quicker way to remove. first i tried prising away the plastic from the standard knob and twisting and breaking for the best part of half an hour, then i realised it would be much quicker to just chop the stick just below the old gear knob and then fill the new top with a hard setting resin, so now i have a new knob and a custom made short shifter

 

[r-reg-sr]

did this the other day, i recevied a leather Nismo top from japan, found a much simple to quicker way to remove. first i tried prising away the plastic from the standard knob and twisting and breaking for the best part of half an hour, then i realised it would be much quicker to just chop the stick just below the old gear knob and then fill the new top with a hard setting resin, so now i have a new knob and a custom made short shifter

cool shhhh,gald you didnt abandon the mission,any pictoids?

 

[xABANDONx]

cool shhhh,gald you didnt abandon the mission,any pictoids?

once i've stuck it on i'll take some snaps , at the minute its being held on with a sock, proper low brow modding haha