factory shift nob removal
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Use a small and narrow screw driver and pry the plastic shift pattern cap off. Then you will see a wedge below it. Take some vice grips and grip onto the wedge(tightly). Then pull up on the vice grips with all your might. After the wedge forcibly comes out, the **** will twist off with lots of ease.
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Use a small and narrow screw driver and pry the plastic shift pattern cap off. Then you will see a wedge below it. Take some vice grips and grip onto the wedge(tightly). Then pull up on the vice grips with all your might. After the wedge forcibly comes out, the **** will twist off with lots of ease.
With a slight but highly effective variation.
Once you get the vice grips "locked" down on that wedge, slide a long handle screw driver through, to make a horizontal bar that you can tap up on.
This will make getting that wedge out much easier, than just pulling up on it.
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Pull the steel insert and turn **** counterclockwise.
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Someone else might be able to chime in with other ways to get the wedge out. Mine came out using the method I described above.
Just pulling it out will be very difficult. But having a way to tap in an upward direction will break it free.
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I got these instructions from a ZF guy but, my insert came out with my finger tips.
Remove Targa Top
Grab the insert with a pair of vice grips
Stand on the Door Sills
Grab vice grips and pull with all your heart.
I hope it works for you.
Once last thing, try tapping it with a hammer and try to pull it one last time first.
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When you say you've used prybars, be specific. Years ago, I couldn't get mine off, then I went by my dad's house in case he had an idea. He handed me a small brake adjuster tool (which looked like the world's smallest crowbar. It fit down in the recess and pulled the "nail" out quite nicely. And, it did so w/o harming the leather ****.
After all that, it made me look at the **** so closely that I tried to refinish it, f'd it up, and thru it away. Now, I've got a blasphamous ****. Yep, that's right,,,,it's got a C5 logo on it! (But, it looks cool!)
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After all that, it made me look at the **** so closely that I tried to refinish it, f'd it up, and thru it away. Now, I've got a blasphamous ****. Yep, that's right,,,,it's got a C5 logo on it! (But, it looks cool!)
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When you say you've used prybars, be specific. Years ago, I couldn't get mine off, then I went by my dad's house in case he had an idea. He handed me a small brake adjuster tool (which looked like the world's smallest crowbar. It fit down in the recess and pulled the "nail" out quite nicely. And, it did so w/o harming the leather ****.
After all that, it made me look at the **** so closely that I tried to refinish it, f'd it up, and thru it away. Now, I've got a blasphamous ****. Yep, that's right,,,,it's got a C5 logo on it! (But, it looks cool!)
gp
After all that, it made me look at the **** so closely that I tried to refinish it, f'd it up, and thru it away. Now, I've got a blasphamous ****. Yep, that's right,,,,it's got a C5 logo on it! (But, it looks cool!)
gp
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They should be sold at any autoparts store. I also see them on harbor freight's website as part of a 3-tool set.
Their might be different sizes of these tiny crowbars. You need one where the 90-degree end is short enough to sit down in the ****'s recess. That will allow you to pull up on the nail. I'm thinking 4 to 6 inches is about how big (long) these tools are.
If you have a grinder, you could shorten one if it turned out to be too long on that end.
Seems like I've seen screwdriver-looking tools that look similar. (IOW, the long portion of the bar has a screwdriver handle on it.)
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