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Old Feb 17, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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Help!! I am upgrading my shifter in my 97 a8 and for love or money I cant get the center consel to remove from the car. How do I remove the parking brake lever and what chicken do I have to sacrafice to what dark god to remove this? thanks
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Old Feb 17, 2007 | 03:44 PM
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Old Feb 17, 2007 | 06:11 PM
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I did it the way you are trying....but here is a better way.<ul><li><a href="http://www.audipages.com/Tech_Articles/Body/shifterremoval.html">http://www.audipages.com/Tech_Articles/Body/shifterremoval.html</a</li></ul>
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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 05:12 AM
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thanks for the diagrams-they match my mitchell on demand perfectly...but sadly my handbrake is rivited in, and without it up or removed I'm sol. I refuse to break anything so any other ideas would be helpful. thanks
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Drill out the rivet
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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 05:03 PM
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Default You don't have to remove any of that stuff.

Remove the floor maths and the two side cover for the transmission tunnel. There is a 4mm Allen head screw of ether side of the wood shifter cover. Remove them and the cover comes up. Now you have access to the shifter.
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