Automatic Shift Knob Adapter
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Automatic Shift **** Adapter
Is anyone else outraged by the price of these conversion kits? It looks like it is basically a spring and a piece of plastic with a screw. Are people really paying $50 for these or is there a DIY shortcut? Please tell me someone has the secret! thanks 
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Brian, it's a bit more than a spring and plastic adapter.
It's made of steel and is black anodized and has a cap for your stock shift boot
It's made of steel and is black anodized and has a cap for your stock shift boot
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Originally Posted by EnglandGreen
Brian, it's a bit more than a spring and plastic adapter.
It's made of steel and is black anodized and has a cap for your stock shift boot
It's made of steel and is black anodized and has a cap for your stock shift boot
......sure, justify the corvette tax 
. i see so many nice 6 speed ***** out there, but i guess there is no real shortcut
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I felt the same way before I bought mine, but I can't see an easy way around it short of changing the entire shift lever (which I wish someone would offer)
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The better one is how West Coast Corvettes WILL NOT sell you just the adapter (Thanks Craig)... they will however, sell it to you for $50 IF you buy one of the $90 ***** as well... 
I tried a while back... I was told "Try the internet." No thanks... I kept my $130.00I went to a buddy's shop and he handed me a $100 **** for FREE. I took a 1/2" x 1" metal dowel and made "my own" adapter.
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Originally Posted by White Dually
O.K. here is my stupid question for the day. How do you remove the **** on an Automatic?
Thanks,
Fred
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Thanks,
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There is a big staple looking pin holding it onto the shaft.
Look at the front of the **** (as if you're sitting facing the rear of the car)
Take a small, flathead screwdriver and insert just the tip (as if you're prying the staple out) and pry out just the edge a little.
Take a pair of needle nose pliers and plug the staple out about half way. The **** will pull right off the shaft.
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Originally Posted by White Dually
O.K. here is my stupid question for the day. How do you remove the **** on an Automatic?
Thanks,
Fred
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Thanks,
Fred
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Originally Posted by MyVetteDream
The better one is how West Coast Corvettes WILL NOT sell you just the adapter (Thanks Craig)... they will however, sell it to you for $50 IF you buy one of the $90 ***** as well... I tried a while back... I was told "Try the internet." No thanks... I kept my $130.00I went to a buddy's shop and he handed me a $100 **** for FREE. I took a 1/2" x 1" metal dowel and made "my own" adapter.
dave, could you give some info on how you made your adapter. it sounds pretty cool. thanks
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Originally Posted by Icemanskis
dave, could you give some info on how you made your adapter. it sounds pretty cool. thanks
I guess the big question would be what kind of **** you have. I got this one... it has the shift release **** in the middle. I just measured out how much I needed and inserted it into the ****. It filled the gap.
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Originally Posted by Cheech Wizard
beat me to the post
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Although I have not been inside my new C5 shifter YET , I have been inside the f-body shifter and assume its pretty close to the same inside.What I have done is cut the plastic stick that actuates the detent , and replaced it with a longer metal rod(actually I like to use an old push rod ) so that it becomes the button, then drill a hole in the center of any **** you want to use.Mount new **** to shifter shaft and off you go.A side benefit to this is you can just pull the rod out and stick it in your back pocket ,no shift, no steal 
Works good been doing it since the 80's 
Works good been doing it since the 80's
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Originally Posted by Cheech Wizard
Ice,
Thanks for the topic!
Saved me $20 of Vette tax.
