Gear lever knob

**p38arover** · 29th June 2011, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by chazza

What about coating the thread on the stick with soap; filling the hole in the knob with a fluid filler such as auto body filler and pushing it onto the stick? This will allow the knob to be unscrewed,

I did this years ago when I made a wooden gearknob for my Hillman. I Vaselined a bolt instead of using the gear lever. That knob lasted for over thirty years.

**hodgo** · 29th June 2011, 08:55 AM

A product that I sware by is Sellys knead it Its ideal for problems like fitting knobs to leavers etc My daughter has worked for Mitre 10 for some years and she showed me who to make a nut from it that worked as well as any nut you would buy. you dip the bolt in to thinish oil, fold the kneadit around it shape it the way and size you need and let it set I have used it on car radiators, patched a hole in a water tank and the best one I have used it for was a striped thread in a spark pug hole on a lawnmower a couple of years ago by pushing the kneadit into what was left of the threads, coatiging the splug threads in oil the screwing it in
I am sure it will fix a gearleaer knob to a leaver.

It should be on google or utube

Hodgo

drifter · 9th July 2011, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by drifter

Thanks for all the assistance offered above.

I have managed to find a supplier of the correct knobs and have ordered a few so I'll have some spares.

Cheers,

They arrived today - look the goods, too!

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