Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:58:46 -0400 From: Malcolm <mwm1XXXnopsamedu> Subject: Transmission Controller
Please edcuse this re-posting but I am in A jam and need some knowledgable assistance Malcolm >I drive, with great pleasure, a '92 9K. The maual shift knob is >disintegrating as we speak. I tried to purchase a knob only and was >told that it was for all purposes it is integral with the shaft. I >bought a knob and attached shaft and it came with a lovely leather >boot.(Mine is "corrugated" rubber.). A plastic tube is attached to the >knob. This tube has three slots in the end away from the knob which >appear to hsave no purpose at all > >On raising the boot on the shifter of my car I can see a polished >steel shaft which is within the plastic tube and at its lower end >merges with a partly visible metal sphere which has groves machined >into it approximately radially. The sphere appears, to this untrained >eye, to be the top end of the shifting linkakage. > >My problem is; how do I get the knob and platic tube assmbly offof the >steelshaft which I think engages with the linkage? I and my brother >and a neighbour have tried to pull it off. > >And the, how do I get my replacement knob and tube backonto the shaft. > >I can see NO nuts, screws or any other farsteners, > >Help please. > >Malcolm