{"id":41,"date":"2010-02-26T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-02-26T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:57:31","slug":"how-to-turn-a-6-speed-sport-gear-knob-into-a-5-speed-on-an-mx-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"How To: Turn a 6-speed Sport gear knob into a 5-speed on an MX-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Simple one this&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Sunday so it&#8217;s time for some more car upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>This time I wanted to upgrade my, rather plain, Option Pack gear knob to something a little classier.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/myweb.tiscali.co.uk\/watsons11\/mx5\/gearknob\/1.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got my hands on a Sport gear knob. It looks nice but, of course, it&#8217;s marked out for the 6-speed box. Not a great problem. I dropped both gear knobs into some pretty hot water and waited for ten minutes. Then I took a guitar plectrum and used it to lever off the top plate of each knob. The plate is plastic and held on by nothing more than double sided tape. I swapped the tops over and retaped them. <em>Et voila<\/em>!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/myweb.tiscali.co.uk\/watsons11\/mx5\/gearknob\/2.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Removing and fitting the gear knob is just a matter of screwing it in the appropriate direction. The finished article looks like this in its new home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/myweb.tiscali.co.uk\/watsons11\/mx5\/gearknob\/3.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks pretty good with the silver gear shift surround.<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple one this&#8230; Hi All, It&#8217;s Sunday so it&#8217;s time for some more car upgrades. This time I wanted to upgrade my, rather plain, Option Pack gear knob to something a little classier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,10],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mx5","tag-how-to","tag-mx5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glasgowdave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}