I drive, with great pleasure, a '92 9K. The maual shift knob is disintegrating as we speak. I tried to purchase a knob only and was told that it was for all purposes it is integral with the shaft. I bought a knob and attached shaft and it came with a lovely leather boot.(Mine is "corrugated" rubber.). A plastic tube is attached to the knob. This tube has three slots in the end away from the knob which appear to hsave no purpose at all
On raising the boot on the shifter of my car I can see a polished steel shaft which is within the plastic tube and at its lower end merges with a partly visible metal sphere which has groves machined into it approximately radially. The sphere appears, to this untrained eye, to be the top end of the shifting linkakage.
My problem is; how do I get the knob and platic tube assmbly offof the steelshaft which I think engages with the linkage? I and my brother and a neighbour have tried to pull it off.
And the, how do I get my replacement knob and tube backonto the shaft.
I can see NO nuts, screws or any other farsteners,
Help please.
Malcolm