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Okay, so I have taken the gear knob off once before so I could clean the connections for the windows switch and I had no issues, screwed the knob back on only hand tight.
So I went to take it off the other day as I got a new leather handbrake boot and gear boot, but I couldn't twist the gear knob off? Am I doing something wrong here or anyone have any idea why the gear knob won't twist off, both me and my father have attempted to get this gear knob off but both of us nearly broke our wrists just trying to get it to budge a little bit with no success.

Has anyone else encountered this before? If all else fails I'll just cut out the current gear boot slide it over the knob and put velcro/zip on the new boot on the top few stitches on one of the sides but yeah would much prefer to work out why the gear knob won't twist off?

Try to use a heat gun or hair dryer to heat up the gear knob, make sure is anti clockwise.

tescoking wrote:Try to use a heat gun or hair dryer to heat up the gear knob, make sure is anti clockwise.

Shall give that a go, hopefully gets some success, and yeah I also doubled and triple checked to make sure I was turning the right way cause that can happen

Cheers!

Wear a rubber glove. If that doesn't work, wrap more and more of the rubber (dash) mats sold at places like SPA around your knob to increase your grip and the mechanical leverage. Ooh, err, missus.