removal of shift knob

[peanutman]

What's the best way to remove shift knob from three on tree without damaging anything. I can't get it to budge.

[nadams]

Mine is busted off and the metal potion of the handle is not round where the knob used to be. The end is sort of round with two tabs coming off the sides so twisting it off will not work. I believe from the remnants that are left it may have been glued on originally.

[nadams]

I will try and get a clear picture of the end of the shifter and post it later today.

[fordman]

i think the handle has splines on it. you have to pull real hard to get it to come off. and if you dont really need it off i wouldnt take it off. they have to be glued once they come off. well sometimes they have to be glued.

[ezernut9mm]

once you get it off i have a big ol black die (dice) that came off my last 68, you can have it. the po put it on and the original was in the glove box-undamaged.

[peanutman]

Reason im wanting to change it is one attached is pitted and chrome gone. I have a nice stock chrome one on another shifter, but have to figure how to get them off without damage.
Thought about making a puller by bolting two pieces of wood together at base of knob and hammering up lightly to break it loose.

[fordman]

why not just change the whole shifter then. just drive out the pin in the shift collar and swap them and put the pin back in it. unless the shifter is messed up on one and the knob on the other. i would practice first one the bad knob if that were the case.

[peanutman]

Thanks will think about that option as well.