My BA10

[ParadiseMJ]

So, my 88 (4.0, BA 10, 231) is endowed with a nice BA10/5 tranny. I also have an AW4 waiting deployment...BUT...until I get the rest of the parts for the AW4 I have to use the Peugot. I know how the shifter goes in and out. My problem is dismantling the shifter ITSELF.

 

The shifter boot is toast, as are the other pieces on the shifter. To remove the old toasted boot and put on the shiny new (junkyard) boot and related parts I need to separate the bottom part of the shifter from the uppr part. It's held in place inside the fat part of the shifter with a rubber piece with what looks like a pressure clip surrounding it.

 

I have searched and Googled, FSM'd, Chilton, Haynes etc. and NOBODY even mentions how to replace the lower boot. It can't slide over from the top or the bottom unless that fat part in the middle is removed.

 

Anyone have a photo or advice on how to get that piece off?? I'm stumped.

[BORDENCOMANCHE]

I used a screw driver and brute force. Its a little piece of rubber, it will stretch and retract. Thats what I did, works fine.

[ParadiseMJ]

I used a screw driver and brute force. Its a little piece of rubber, it will stretch and retract. Thats what I did, works fine.

 

I guess my "brute" isn't. Still looking for answers. There has to be a "way", all I wana do is change out the boots.

[Eagle]

The shifter boot is toast, as are the other pieces on the shifter. To remove the old toasted boot and put on the shiny new (junkyard) boot and related parts I need to separate the bottom part of the shifter from the uppr part. It's held in place inside the fat part of the shifter with a rubber piece with what looks like a pressure clip surrounding it.

 

I have searched and Googled, FSM'd, Chilton, Haynes etc. and NOBODY even mentions how to replace the lower boot. It can't slide over from the top or the bottom unless that fat part in the middle is removed.

 

Anyone have a photo or advice on how to get that piece off?? I'm stumped.

Can't be done without destroying the shifter. My dealer is an old-line Jeep dealer -- they were AMC/Jeep since before the introduction of the XJ. (In fact, they go all the way back to Hudson.) The shop foreman told me that there once was a (very expensive) factory tool to separate those two halves. Over the course of about 20 years the shop used it exactly one time, so when they needed space in the tool room for tools to work on the newer vehicles ... it got tossed.

 

It IS two pieces and you could probably mount it in a big vise and pound it apart -- but you probably won't get it back together again.

[ParadiseMJ]

:grrrr:

[ParadiseMJ]

I used a screw driver and brute force. Its a little piece of rubber, it will stretch and retract. Thats what I did, works fine.

 

The donor shifter came apart fairly easy with a vise and a crowbar. Like a pickle fork with more leverage. After I got that one apart, the other one was easier to rig up. I have a different shifter extension to put back on. Good to go.