Greetings,

I am re-doing my interior and have across an issue. Currently I am attempting to replace the rubber part of the gear shift boot of my 84 Pontiac Trans Am 5 speed manual.

Can anyone tell me what I would need to repair this? A standard gearshift boot does not seem to fit. What parts can I use, and what is the best way to repair this. I have included a pic for visual reference.

Thank you for your help.

 

What kind of "standard gearshift boots" are you looking at?

Most likely its discontinued from dealer, junkyard is your best bet or you could try ebay and the classifieds here.

I think its 4 screws that hold it to the tunnel. Will have to remove the console most likely.

Try anyone of the sponsors to the side ---->. Hawks could get ya one for sure if you gave them a call.


Bet that let in a lot of heat driving down the road huh? Like these cars don't already put enough heat through the firewall let alone with a hole underneath the console too!

 

You aren't kidding. My first drive with it was over two hours to get it from there to here. You talk about heat. I checked Hawks and was a bit frightened that it would cost me about 50 bucks to replace plus shipping. But I've already tried junkyards around here and even the official Pontiac place. They said that it had in fact been discontinued.

That's okay though, I'm redoing my interior anyway, so the console is going to be coming out..just add another fix to it!!

 

I wonder how it would look to just do away with the whole center console completely, and just use onw of those rubber shift boots screwed right to the carpet?

 

I was going to do it at one point. I took it out and drove around for a few days, and it was cool, but just wasn't as comfortable to drive. All I can say is take out your console and drive around for a bit, you'll know if you like it or not.

 

It must give you that old muscle car feeling, like an old 4-on-the-floor car.

 

I suppose I could theorotically make my own.

 

I dont know how the stock one is held in, but if the autozone ones dont fit, maybe you could get one that is a little too big, and modify it.

Another option might be trying to get a 4th gen boot to fit?

 

thats EXACTLY what it feels like. and it feels like somethings missing. just for fun, take out all the seats except the drivers seat. i did.

 

it was still available 2 years ago, but the 4th gen boot is very close to the same thing if I remember right. Go to the local GM parts counter and ask about pricing.

 

A buddy of mine's wife took 4 pieces of pleather, sewed them together, and made a new boot. Pretty simple really.

 

I purchased one from this guy on ls1tech who makes them out of (so he says) real italian leather. Its a very nice piece, real leather, and fit like a glove.

At one point I was gun hoe about deleting my console. I do like having a place to rest my arm though, thats why I ultimately decided to put it back in.

 

Yeah, I guess it does provide a few necessary commodities too, like the Ash Tray, Cig lighter, power windows, e-brake, and a place to keep the registration

 

Yea. My console is in the back hatch now, and I have one seat and no carpet. Was debating leaving the thing out. Then I went to roll the window down, and grabbed the wrong switch and rolled down the passenger side. >.> If there was a way to do it and keep the functionality it'd be sweet.

 

Relocate your switches to the dash or door....

 

The wife didn't do it, I did it. And it's all hand sewn I might add. She said she didn't have the right needle to sew anything that thick on the machine.


But, ......When I did the auto to manual conversion on my car I bought one of the generic rubber tunnel boots from Advance Auto. It fit fine on my car, but then again I cut the hole in the tunnel just big enough for the shifter to clear. I don't know what the dimensions are on the originally 5spd cars.