I tried unscrewing it but it won't budge. I'm not even sure if it is screwed on....

I'm pretty sure they are all threaded on.  I know it is in my Tacoma, dito for the transfer case shifter

every one I've ever seen was threaded .... i've had quite a few that were loose - maybe someone put threadlock on it

it has a pin in it

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.

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 

Hacksaw or Sawzall. Just Cut the Shifter in Half Right below the Knob. It looks too long anyway.

That's a mid 90's Dodge Dakota, right?

It screws right off on mine.   

I always thought it would be funny to extend the shifter in my truck up really high. Like a big rig shifter.

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.

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

There is nothing in the world you can't accoplish with some Detcord

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  now we just need someone to post that pic of the guy hanging out the car door dragging his knee 

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  now we just need someone to post that pic of the guy hanging out the car door dragging his knee 

You mean this one? 

May want to re-use the shifter   Hell even 3-4 inches of Detcord and he'd have to worry about some major engine parts   And doors   And more than likely it would be in some form convertible

Side note:  7 feet Detcord+ Big Pine Tree+ 1 Mile Away= Still got knocked backwards by the shock wave    Seriously people worry about me dying in Iraq   It's much more likely to happen in my own backyard

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?

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

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 

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

There is some that's physically shaped for directing the blast, and it works damn well     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    IIRC  about a foot= 9 ounces of explosive.  1 pound C4 placed properly can level a small building   With Detcord your actual blast radius is fairly small but the shockwave can travel a very long way   I've set car alarms off 3 miles away with it

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

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

I can build my own grenades   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!!!!!


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

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

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 

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