Take a peek at these pics....

 

Here's another one

 

I can't get the darn shifter to come off!

 

What am I doing wrong? I tried the whole "take off one side and tighten the other side" but now it's just stuck in place. Grrr. She ain't budging.

Any ideas?

 

One side is 17mm, the other is 18mm.

 

What's not budging, the shifter or the nut?

 

This shifter doesn't look exactly like the examples I see in a few other YouTube videos. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong? What should I be doing? Besides cursing and swearing? Haha

 

The threaded rod itself. It was moving towards the "out" position, but them all of a sudden she stopped. Completely. It's taking all the grunting I can muster- but still not budging.

Maybe I've reached the end of the threaded portion? Time to get out the rubber mallet?

 

Any ideas? Start smacking it?

 

I removed the 17mm by simply unthreading it counterclockwise. It came off pretty quickly.

Then I moved to the other side, and with an 18mm wrench began to tighten it, thinking that it would pull out by slowly tightening it. It hasn't come out, however - and now it's super tight. Almost as if I'm really tightening it right in place. It's taking a tremendous amount of effort to get ANYTHING to happen, and at this point, I'm afraid I'm just sucking it tighter and tighter - but it's no closer to actually coming out.

Does this shifter look like what you'd expect to see on a M5OD? Am I even headed down the right road?

I have a feeling that I'm close, but just not there yet.

Appreciate any input - as always, you guys are lifesavers!

 

Here's a video. Also, please edit your posts. Don't make 3 posts in a row.

 

Thanks Lead -

I appreciate you posting that video; I watched that one earlier today. However, as I referenced in one of my many posts - that shifter doesn't match the shifter in my '89 F150. It's close, but not a match. I think the youtuber mentions that his is a......'99 F150. Close - but not identical.

My shifter had nuts on both sides. You can read what happened when I tried tightening one side. No dice. Am I being impatient?

I apologize about the many posts; I can't seem to post multiple images in one post when posting from my phone. Our rural internet is so crazy slow that I have to post one at a time. I'll see if I can clean that up in the future. Sorry about that posting mess....

Keep the good info coming! I can use all the help I can get. I'm on the WWW now looking for even further details. Hopefully I'm close....I thought this was a quick and easy job! Haha! Famous last words! hahahah

I read in another thread that perhaps I can simply remove the entire assembly by taking out the three torx screws and removing the entire shifter assembly. Is that true?

Perhaps I'll try that and see where it leads me....

 

It's the same transmission, and the shifter is still retained in the same way. Remove one nut, tighten the other. You may have to bang the stud the rest of the way out.

 

OK - thanks Lead.

Perhaps I'll try that. I was just poking around on the triple w and discovered that Autozone suggests double-nutting one side and removing the threaded rod that way. Sounds reasonable at this point.

I've got work to do!

 

There should only be a single nut on that stud. IIRC it's the passenger get side,the longer side. The shirt side is the side that the stud pulls out from. You take the nut off the long side, now there are no nuts on the stud at all. Thread it onto the short side, and tighten it. The act of tightening the nut pulls the stud out of the shifter. You can't double nut the stud and turn it out, the stud is splined. The nut works as the puller, the stud will NOT spin in the hole.

When you put it back together, throw out that second nut. It doesnt do anything, whoever put it back together probably just thought they missed it and found one to install.