Help!! Gear Knob N16 03

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So after years of misuse by the thumbs of my masculine hands my old gear knob has decided to look jaded and worn down, after popping in to the local halfords and going on a spontaneous buying spree I saw a £60 gear knob dropped down to 1/2 of the price.

Now i've gone and bought the damn thing and can't for the life of me take the old one off, tried just about everything except hacking at it with a blow torch or burning it with a saw. It will not turn a cm and im worried that if i take some type of monkey wrench to it and start wrenching it off anymore, the stick may break or worse I may twist what ever is below it to oblivian.

Can anyone provide any form of solution to this problem.
 
Cut all the old rubber off with a serrated knife. Yoiu will be left with a massive nut, get a spanner on it and take it straight off.
 
No massive nut just a giant metal block underneath all that rubber, it looks like the rubber was covering the metal skull looking thing.
 
Should be hexagonal, mine was just like a giant nut, just put a large adjustable on it and took it off!

If not, you could always cut the gearstick (I assume reverse is below 5th, I've got a p2 box in mine and it's there) push the gaiter down slightly and bolt the gearknob straight on.
 
get a towel and then get a adjustable spanner and then put the towel on top of the gear knob and turn anti clockwise :) and it should loosen up :)
 
Well after much anoyance I took two clamps to it, one to the stick and one to the gear knob, it seems nissan used some sort of adhesive on the original knob and fixed the damn thing on so tight it needed one guy (me to hold the stick with a clamp) and another to twist the huge metal block off.

All i need to do now is work out how to smarten that plasticy looking dashboard up with a new radio.. A job for next month.
 
Lynxus said:
All i need to do now is work out how to smarten that plasticy looking dashboard up with a new radio.. A job for next month.
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Once you know what head-unit you'll be getting get an autoleads fascia adaptor and harness adaptor (Halfords will order them in, about £35-40).
Should be a 20-minute job after that.
 
Watch out though because the interiors are all weird colors and you might have to buy a couple before you get the color of your interior. The autoleads one is flat black.
 
Lynxus said:
tried just about everything except hacking at it with a blow torch or burning it with a saw.
Can anyone provide any form of solution to this problem.
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maybe try it the other way around :P
 
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