removing shift lever/dustboot

[Oizarod115]

how do you get the "shift lever extension" off of the "shift lever" in order to remove the "dustboot" and the "shift lever"?

i know alot of yall have replaced BA10s so hopefully someone can shed some light on this situatioin... maybe ill take a pic to better describe what I'm havin trouble with.

[Cabz]

how do you get the "shift lever extension" off of the "shift lever" in order to remove the "dustboot" and the "shift lever"?

i know alot of yall have replaced BA10s so hopefully someone can shed some light on this situatioin... maybe ill take a pic to better describe what I'm havin trouble with.

 

Are you talking about that little round black boot/seal on the top of the shifter body? . If so there in a clip under the extention's lip , you can pull it and work the extention off the rubber bushing but.............. IT aint easy :eek: . Why are you trying to break the shifter down?

[Oizarod115]

i was trying to remove the shifter to add oil, but i took 5-90 (naxja) s advice and I'm gonna remove it all in one peice just get the three bolts under the rubber boot off.

[Bounty Hunter]

I've never been able to get a 5spd or transfer case shifter apart like that. I can see how it's assembled around the rubber bushing, but I can't get them apart.

[Cabz]

I have just ignored that little boot , when it goes bad I use a shock boot to make the shifter water tight . I had a YJ trans fill with water cause that lil bugger was bad .

[Guest]

Good question!!!!

 

I have never been able to separate them.

 

They are connected by means of a rubber bush but i was not able to separate both, the shift lever and the extension. And i could not find info in tha mannuals I have.

 

Fernando

[Eagle]

There is (or was) a special tool that old line Jeep dealers had for disassembling those shifter handles. It required having the assembly out of the tranny anyway, to put the shift handle in a vise, so for this purpose it would not have been helpful. The shop foreman at my dealership told me they tossed theirs years ago -- it is difficult to use, and there was virtually never a need for it. They needed the space in the tool crib for tools they use.

 

Without that special tool, I believe there is no non-destructive way to separate the upper shift handle from the lower extension.

[Oizarod115]

yeah, i just took 5-90s advice and pulled the dustboot up to access the three bolts that are juuuust not 10mm metrics... dk what the heck they are but a 6pt 10mm got them out without trouble so thats good.