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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.
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05-13-2016, 04:47 PM | #1416 |
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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.
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05-13-2016, 10:37 PM | #1417 |
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It's coming
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Add crest to that above and one will have Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch shift knob
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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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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.
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I just googled "star wars sticks shift knobs" that one came up.. it's by Etsy
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http://bloxracing.com/shop/index.php...ath=65_120_161
I have the same shift knob. I used a lockout level adapter. Did the trick.
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