Please edcuse this re-posting but I am in A jam and need some knowledgable assistance
Malcolm
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