the part for me the hardest was to find the right diameter punch. Loll but that pin out alone

Thanks! Yeah, I love it. It's got a more positive feel and sound when you go into reverse than the plastic one. And I love the Slammer too. One thing about the pictures is it looks like it might have a rough texture from the brushed metal but it's totally smooth. And the Slammer plus having replaced my fluid with Motul makes for pretty much effortless shifting. I can shift by fingertips.

It should only take a few minutes if you're lucky with the roll pin on your stock RLO. I wasn't so lucky. I started out with trying to use the long end of a 2.5mm (I think that's right) allen key. It wasn't having any of it. Even giving the end of it a good tapping didn't budge the roll pin. Other folks have had their's plop right out without a lot of force but these were not the tools for one being sticky.

So I went to Home Depot and got a rubber hammer and a modular punch with an assortment of sizes (seen on the floorboard of my picture). All of the punches they had were essentially progressive, so the rated size is essentially for the tip but it gets fatter along the shaft of the punch. I don't know, perhaps that's normal, but this made for a lot of effort. I destroyed that stock RLO hammering that punch through. Split it, and had a piece nearly smack me in the face when it broke off.

Hammering on that punch felt so wrong but it worked, and I've seen more than one video where this was necessary. But the shifter itself wasn't damaged at all and the new pin for the new RLO went in like butter. Then it's just a matter of a few tries with the locking adapter and the new shift knob to get it perfectly aligned. So, if you've already got the tools you're looking at a few minutes at the fastest, maybe fifteen if it's being a little stubborn. Main thing that will add time is getting over the feeling you're going to break something (at least for me that was the case).

I will echo one thing I read online though, it's better to pop the ring around your shift boot and lift it off the top, rather than pull it down and away from the RLO. Everything'll go back together quicker and smoother and it gets it out of the way while you work.

Even if the punch is right it can be tough to get it in and out. Getting it in can be much easier by freezing the pin and heating the RLO, so the metals contract and widen, respectively. Still terrible.

https://img1.etsystatic.com/037/0/61...86225_ijwj.jpg

It's coming

Add crest to that above and one will have Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch shift knob :)

What do you need to count to?

I think its either 2, 3, or 4. I know 5 is right out. I think there is a book somewhere with the instructions.

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Real men don't read instructions.

Lobeth and go I say..

http://i.imgur.com/WGxmWtC.jpg
Anybody know how to cover up the rest of the screw?

Making it yourself, or do you know a company making them? I've seriously been holding out for one!

Totally agreed - started with a punch and all that did was mangle the pin. Took me a six-pack of drill bits (and a few hours) to get that effer out.

I just googled "star wars sticks shift knobs" that one came up.. it's by Etsy

Yea I've seen that one then. I was hoping someone was making a legit weighted knob