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How do you guys install a new shifter boot?

d_ford

d_ford

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I rebuilt the shifter for the toploader on my 66 today and the boot was trashed so I went to replace it with a NOS one I had. I ripped it. Damn.
I've replaced them in the past by just carefully pulling them over the reverse lockout handles but it didn't work this time. It looks like it would be a real PITA to disassemble the shifter. Maybe the rubber on the NOS one was less pliable because of age, I don't know. I'll get an aftermarket one for it now.
What do you guys do?
 
Likely the NOS one was just aged and brittle. I used a repro one, heated it up a little and stretched it over the T-handle. It really wasn't too hard. From what I understand the T-handle can't be disassembled.

Frank
 
Be careful when stretching it over the T-handle. To soften it up, either let it sit in the sun for a while or heat it with a hair dryer. First, I stick a screwdriver into the hole. Then gradually and gently pull and release the boot until it stretches over the T; just like stretching a rubber band. Pull and release. Pull and release. If you pull hard the first time, the boot will quickly tear.
 
Drop the rubber boot into a pot of boiling water for a few minutes.
It will become pliable enough to install around lockout.
 
"DEL65" said:
let it sit in the sun for a while or heat it with a hair dryer. First, I stick a screwdriver into the hole. Then gradually and gently pull and release the boot until it stretches over the T; just like stretching a rubber band. Pull and release. Pull and release.
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I assume that must be the way these two put on their "outfits" :puk
:wop


:sm_NTA
 
Ok. Cool. I know I had done it that way in the past with no issues. The NOS one must have just been old. Thanks!
 
"Mach1Rider" said:
Drop the rubber boot into a pot of boiling water for a few minutes.
It will become pliable enough to install around lockout.
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That is what I did...
 
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