pinoyesv6
06-30-2003, 09:21 PM
I think i figured out a way to install a manual shift knob in our cars without causing any damage to the car. but let me first start with a story.
i got my maxspeed shift boot today. i bought it on ebay for a dollar plus shipping it includes a shift knob too.
http://63.193.218.220:8087/fif=maxspeed-shifteranboot.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=300&hei=294&rgn=0.0,0.0,1.00000000,1.00000000&lng=en_US&cvt=jpeg
so yea, i planned on installing the shift boot. removed the bezel, removed the shift knob and guess what, shift boot was too small to fit around the plastic shift indicator piece. so yea. took off that piece tried stretching the boot to make it fit with the piece not connected to the car and it still won't work.
so with everything taken apart, i looked at how the white plastic piece, the part with the famous triangle that we all cut off for aftermarket knobs, how that works. pretty much all it does is slide up and down in the shaft and thats connected to the linkage to shift.
so yea, i took my hand and pushed the triangle piece down all by myself and to my suprise it goes in and i can shift into different gears. so an idea pops into my head. i grab the shift knob and place it over the triangle thing. i push down on the shift knob and yea, im shifting into all these gears. but the shift knob is really wobbly. the hole in the bottom of the shift knob is really big compared to the triangle thingy and yea the shift nkob could just fall off since it wasn't secure.
so here's my idea. the shaft that the white triangle plastic piece sits inside has an outside diameter of 3/4" now im thinking take a pipe with an inside diameter of 3/4" inches or maybe slightly bigger, and slide it over that shaft. then take the manual shift knob and attach that to the pipe. so yea that solves one problem. the shift knob won't wobble since its connected to the pipe and the pipe isn't wobbling to the shaft.
there another problem arises. sum1 could just walk up to your car and just pull up on the knob and steal the knob and the pipe. so then i remember the OEM shift knob is held in by two screws. so i think, and yea screw the pipe down to that shaft. i keep thinking more and i realize if i screw the pipe down, then the pipe won't be able to slide up and down. so my solution, instead of drilling two holes for the screws, make a rectangular hole so that the pipe can still slide up and down but still use the screws to keep the knob from getting pulled out.
tell me what u guys think and any problems that might arise with my idea.
imma be heading down to home depot first thing in the morning to get some pipe.
i got my maxspeed shift boot today. i bought it on ebay for a dollar plus shipping it includes a shift knob too.
http://63.193.218.220:8087/fif=maxspeed-shifteranboot.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=300&hei=294&rgn=0.0,0.0,1.00000000,1.00000000&lng=en_US&cvt=jpeg
so yea, i planned on installing the shift boot. removed the bezel, removed the shift knob and guess what, shift boot was too small to fit around the plastic shift indicator piece. so yea. took off that piece tried stretching the boot to make it fit with the piece not connected to the car and it still won't work.
so with everything taken apart, i looked at how the white plastic piece, the part with the famous triangle that we all cut off for aftermarket knobs, how that works. pretty much all it does is slide up and down in the shaft and thats connected to the linkage to shift.
so yea, i took my hand and pushed the triangle piece down all by myself and to my suprise it goes in and i can shift into different gears. so an idea pops into my head. i grab the shift knob and place it over the triangle thing. i push down on the shift knob and yea, im shifting into all these gears. but the shift knob is really wobbly. the hole in the bottom of the shift knob is really big compared to the triangle thingy and yea the shift nkob could just fall off since it wasn't secure.
so here's my idea. the shaft that the white triangle plastic piece sits inside has an outside diameter of 3/4" now im thinking take a pipe with an inside diameter of 3/4" inches or maybe slightly bigger, and slide it over that shaft. then take the manual shift knob and attach that to the pipe. so yea that solves one problem. the shift knob won't wobble since its connected to the pipe and the pipe isn't wobbling to the shaft.
there another problem arises. sum1 could just walk up to your car and just pull up on the knob and steal the knob and the pipe. so then i remember the OEM shift knob is held in by two screws. so i think, and yea screw the pipe down to that shaft. i keep thinking more and i realize if i screw the pipe down, then the pipe won't be able to slide up and down. so my solution, instead of drilling two holes for the screws, make a rectangular hole so that the pipe can still slide up and down but still use the screws to keep the knob from getting pulled out.
tell me what u guys think and any problems that might arise with my idea.
imma be heading down to home depot first thing in the morning to get some pipe.