So how do ya repair this?

wolfman · Dec 23, 2013

Ordered a new shift boot/Dust cover for the D-17. Looked at old one and it seems the gear shift knob has no intentions of giving up it's position. Spins around like a cat chasing it's tail, but stays home. Surely the new boot won't stretch over the knob! I suppose I'm missing something - beside a brain!

Janicholson · Dec 23, 2013

Did you look under the base of the knob for a setscrew? Usual for most non threaded knobs. (except for the IH rubber biscuit) Jim

Bob Bancroft · Dec 23, 2013

Pull real hard! Problem is all that stuff gets hard or brittle with age. May have to buy a new knob also. Lube with Murphy's oil soap.

JMS/.MN · Dec 23, 2013

Knob is nothing but rubber....top of the shifter is a steel ball. Rubber has to stretch to fit over the ball. Similar to B, C, CA, WD45, unlike WC, WD, WF, which were screwed on or fit a knurled straight shaft.

Janicholson · Dec 23, 2013

in other words warm it up and pull. It looks like a good candidate for reshaping and threading after removal. (I hate wiggley rotating knobs) Jim

Dave Sherburne NY · Dec 23, 2013

It will stretch over the knob, Boil it first an while still warm it will slip right over

MI AC Parsons · Dec 23, 2013

What I don't learn on here...thanks guys

DeltaRed · Dec 23, 2013

Me too!I put a blob of liquid nail in the hole.Shove it on to the stick.It will never move again!

Hendrik · Dec 24, 2013

Arrrgh, the memory!
Fourtyfive years ago at school we had an old lathe which had a few of those loose knobs. Yuck.

Merry Christmas!

60 acre hillside · Dec 24, 2013

Borrow some Astraglide

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