How to Install a Shift Lever / Gear Shift Boot
|For the Shift Lever / Gear Shift Boot to keep dirt and moisture out it has to fit tight!!!
If the shift lever / gear shift boot would slip right on it would not serve the purpose.
- Heat the shift boot up to make it flex, either in a pan of hot water, an electric heat gun or hair dryer.
- When the boot is flexible from the heat put some sort of lubrication on the boot (white grease etc.) to make it slide easier onto the trans shifter mount.
- Slide the boot down onto the lever (you may have to wiggle it on the last few inches) if it still resists sliding onto the mount take a dull screwdriver and try to work the boot around the base or reheat the boot with a hand held heater, this should make it slide the rest of the way.
JR
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Thanks very much I knew there would be a trick to it.