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hey i just got a fresh stock shifter knob for my ti. can someone tell me how to remove the old one and put the new one in? |  |  | | 12-19-2006, 02:07 AM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: SoCal Posts: 549 |
hold it with both hands as hard as you can and pull up.
be sure not to knock yourself in the face/forehead with it. __________________
318Ti Sport (Gone, but thanks for your years of service) | M3 E30 | 190E-16V | M Coupe E36/8 | | | | | 12-19-2006, 02:13 AM | #3 | | Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 36 |
Quote: Originally Posted by AutoM3otives  hold it with both hands as hard as you can and pull up.
be sure not to knock yourself in the face/forehead with it. | yanking it won't hurt the shifter? should i keep the clutch in? how stupid do i sound? | | | | | 12-19-2006, 02:44 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Saint Louis, MO Posts: 143 |
yanking hard (with just a bit of twisting/wiggling) is the only way and no you won't hurt the shifter, and i second the don't hit yourself in the face comment... __________________ 
1997 318ti sport
1972 2002 sleeper | | | | | 12-19-2006, 03:02 AM | #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 250 |
yea i third that, i nailed myself in the face once.....felt kinda stupid afterwards | | | | | 12-19-2006, 03:45 AM | #6 | | Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 36 |
i can't get it to budge. my whole body is sore from trying. does anyone have any other ideas? it's just the stock leather knob. i don't know why it won't come out.
there's a screw under the plastic emblem. do i need to take that out or does it matter? i took it out and still couldn't get it off. | | | | | 12-19-2006, 10:19 AM | #7 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Posts: 197 |
fourth that.... i've changed one a couple of times, so far each time managed to whack myself in the head each time. O well....
Just pull,
you could try spaying a little silicon spray around the base; not sure it will help but could be worth a try. | | | | | 12-19-2006, 01:22 PM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Land of the Vikings Posts: 2,700 |
lol, yeah ill fith that  fat lips all round! __________________ 
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Don't twist it at all. Pull up with a jerk. PULL HARD. From the back seat in fourth gear might even help. Put your back into it. | | | | | 12-19-2006, 05:37 PM | #10 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,305 |
maybe if you try vice grips around the top?
I replaced my old one when it got so tired i jerked it off shifting into second gear...you don't want to wait that long...it's awkward
...you can do it baby put your back into it | | | | | 12-19-2006, 07:23 PM | #11 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bend, OR Posts: 413 |
ya, i put it in 2nd gear..and turn your right hand upside down when grabbing it. and gput your left around your right..and yank hard...straight back...unless it's been superglued...then your SOL
+1 about not hitting yourself..lol..not a good feeling | | | | | 12-19-2006, 08:21 PM | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 200 |
+1 to pulling straight up HARD.
+sideways eight for not hitting yourself while doing it. | | | | | 12-19-2006, 08:46 PM | #13 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
or you could take a utility knife and just slice it from the bottom up(so you don't accidently cut the boot). Theres a plastic sleeve built into the knob, may take some elbow grease to cut through, but it will work. Even a small cut will atleast loosen it, just careful not to cut yourself. Pulling up too hard on the shifter may damage the forks on the other end of it, the arm itself is made out of aluminum. | | | | | 12-20-2006, 06:33 PM | #14 | | Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 36 |
i still can't get it off, but thanks a ton for all the input. i'm gonna try the "from the back seat in fourth" idea next. should i have someone hold in the clutch or does that matter?
what would mcgyver do? | | | | | 12-20-2006, 06:39 PM | #15 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 258 |
mcgyver would quit being afraid of damaging his clutch/shifter/mechanism and just pull
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