[Miata] Shift Boot

[Ken Bogart]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Larry Alster <Larry at miata.net> wrote:
> You cut the old on to get it off.  You wet the shifter and slide the new one
> on.  I use silicone spray but water is almost as good.
>
> It's not hard it only looks like it will be.
>
>
>
> Larry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: miata-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:miata-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf
> Of entropycat at verizon.net
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:24 AM
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> Subject: [Miata] Shift Boot
>
> Greetings to the list!
>
>   Here's another question:
>
>   I have a '90 Miata (NA) with a disintegrating inner shift boot.   This is
>
> not the "insulator" boot that keeps heat out of the cockpit, this is the
> small boot that attaches to the metal cap that screws into the shift tower
> on the gearbox.
>
>   I have a pert number for the whole assembly (I think) but I don't have a
> clue as to how one is supposed to get it on or off the shift lever.   The
> small rubber boot seals against a small diameter portion of the shift lever
> right above the huge ball that it pivots on, and right below the large
> diameter black-painted finished section that eventually protrudes into the
> cockpit.   I don't suppose that destroying the old boot getting it off would
>
> be a big deal, but I'd really hate to split the new one by forcing it on.
> The smallest diameter of the shift lever that it would have to go over is
> the bottom part of the black part, which is probably twice (or more) the
> diameter of the part that the boot seals against.   Forcing  the new boot
> over this part of the lever sounds like a good way to ruin it.
>
>   Anyone ever replaced this boot?   Any suggestions?   Please, no KY Jelly
> jokes.
>
> Regards,
> Jim T.
> entropycat at verizon.net
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