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Title: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: Ry_Guy on May 10, 2007, 06:30:37 PM
I tried unscrewing it but it won't budge. I'm not even sure if it is screwed on....
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Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: manofthefield on May 10, 2007, 06:37:59 PM
I'm pretty sure they are all threaded on.  I know it is in my Tacoma, dito for the transfer case shifter
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: genEricStL on May 10, 2007, 06:40:09 PM
every one I've ever seen was threaded .... i've had quite a few that were loose - maybe someone put threadlock on it ???
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: Nydus666 on May 10, 2007, 07:19:16 PM
it has a pin in it
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: mach1 on May 10, 2007, 08:03:38 PM
I had the same problem with a trooper at the junk yard so I got a small pipe wrence and It came loose, once off I saw a good amount of rust.
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: genEricStL on May 10, 2007, 08:28:06 PM
you may also want to pop off the shift-pattern diagram disk-on-top-=thingy and see if there's not a shim in it keepijng it from unthreading ... I've seen some shifters that had a notch cut perpendicular to the threads where a shim could be placed to lock it in  :dunno_white:
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: Jughead on May 10, 2007, 09:18:14 PM
Hacksaw or Sawzall. :thumb: Just Cut the Shifter in Half Right below the Knob. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: It looks too long anyway. :laugh: :laugh: ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: GeeP on May 10, 2007, 10:02:59 PM
That's a mid 90's Dodge Dakota, right?

It screws right off on mine.   ;)
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: bucks1605 on May 11, 2007, 06:18:36 AM
I always thought it would be funny to extend the shifter in my truck up really high. Like a big rig shifter.
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: natedawg120 on May 11, 2007, 06:25:21 AM
yeah it is going to screw off.  They are a pain in the butt when they get stuck but it will come off, just have to turn it hard enough.
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: ajaxgs on May 11, 2007, 07:13:26 AM
get a small screw driver under the shift pattern ,pops off then pull straight off no screws or pins just a press fit on a spline

cheers
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: spc on May 11, 2007, 09:25:28 AM
There is nothing in the world you can't accoplish with some Detcord :thumb: :thumb: :o :o
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: genEricStL on May 11, 2007, 04:37:27 PM
lol , he may want to re-use the shifter later though hehe


.... OR , is he rigging up a GS shifter in the floorboards ... he may be on to something  :icon_mrgreen: now we just need someone to post that pic of the guy hanging out the car door dragging his knee  :thumb:
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: bucks1605 on May 11, 2007, 06:35:24 PM
Quote from: genEricStL on May 11, 2007, 04:37:27 PM
lol , he may want to re-use the shifter later though hehe


.... OR , is he rigging up a GS shifter in the floorboards ... he may be on to something  :icon_mrgreen: now we just need someone to post that pic of the guy hanging out the car door dragging his knee  :thumb:

You mean this one?  :thumb:

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Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: spc on May 12, 2007, 12:38:31 AM
May want to re-use the shifter :o :o :o  Hell even 3-4 inches of Detcord and he'd have to worry about some major engine parts :o :o  And doors :laugh:  And more than likely it would be in some form convertible :laugh: :laugh:

Side note:  7 feet Detcord+ Big Pine Tree+ 1 Mile Away= Still got knocked backwards by the shock wave :laugh: :laugh:   Seriously people worry about me dying in Iraq :icon_rolleyes: :icon_rolleyes:  It's much more likely to happen in my own backyard :icon_rolleyes:
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: Ry_Guy on May 14, 2007, 10:02:14 AM
QuoteThat's a mid 90's Dodge Dakota, right?

It screws right off on mine.   

Yea, it's a 96.

Thanks for the replies guys! Btw, what is Detcord anyway?
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: natedawg120 on May 14, 2007, 11:10:48 AM
Quote from: Ry_Guy on May 14, 2007, 10:02:14 AM

Btw, what is Detcord anyway?

Explosive cord or rope.  Basically you wrap it around something you want to destroy, them boom.  Watch some mythbusters, they have used that at least once :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: genEricStL on May 14, 2007, 02:46:40 PM
they used it in Vietnam to clear trees ... wrap it around the tree , WHAM , and the tree's cut in half right where the detcord was  :thumb:

IIRC , it's been updated now to more of a "shaped-charge" type explosive , directing more of the force in one particular direction ... Terry would definately know more on this than I do though hehe
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: spc on May 14, 2007, 06:21:43 PM
There is some that's physically shaped for directing the blast, and it works damn well :thumb:    The shaZam! I can usually get my hands on is late 80's era,  Basically just C4 a little bit dumbed down and stretched into about 1/4" rope :thumb:   IIRC  about a foot= 9 ounces of explosive.  1 pound C4 placed properly can level a small building :thumb:  With Detcord your actual blast radius is fairly small but the shockwave can travel a very long way :o :o  I've set car alarms off 3 miles away with it :o :o

The 'Nam era stuff was pretty raw and unrefined but it did the job, and did it damn well :thumb:

Mythbusters uses industrial grade Detcord.  Not quite as powerful but still a hell of a lot of bang :thumb:  i heard somewhere they use it for cleaning boilers and shaZam! :o :o

I can build my own grenades :o :o  You can buy the shells pretty cheap from many places and the Blast caps aren't hard to come by.  You can use rifle grade Black Powder packed VERY tight if you can't get Mil Grade powder.  ***WARNING***  I do not condone this!!!!!  It is a federal offense and incredibly dangerous!!!!! :o :o


Then again possesion of explosives without a permit is a federal offense too :icon_confused: :icon_confused:

I don't suggest any of this unless you have a large undeveloped property and some form of explosives training,  It will kill you much more easily than any motorcycle
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: genEricStL on May 14, 2007, 07:58:28 PM
Ya , times have changed . i'm 34 now , but when I was like 12 through 15 I had a buddy whose father was an ex Green Beret . We got ahold of his Improvised Munitions fieldbook ( water soluble paper and all hehe) , saw the recipe for plastique , and Monsanto actually sent the potassium nitrate to my home ! I didn't answer the door lol , as I was 13 or so and didn't have the 80 bucks , or else we'd have probably blown limbs (at LEAST hehe) off of ourselves .
We used to get the waterproof wicks , black powder in a can , and make tennisball bombs when we went to his grandparents farm on weekends  :o

Between that stuff , and having a sadistic (at the time) brother 2 years older than me that I had to stay home alone with all the time , i'm really rather astonished I made it to adulthood  :dunno_white:
Title: Re: How do you get a shift knob off?
Post by: spc on May 14, 2007, 09:00:33 PM
 :laugh: :laugh: Fun Times :laugh: :laugh:
I'm pretty surprised that I'm still alive, too :laugh: :laugh:

They made us take this course on IED's and about half of it was how to make em :o :o :icon_twisted: :icon_twisted:

Times have changed :icon_confused: :icon_confused:  they do a background check just to buy fertilizer these days :o :o