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**Posted by MS** 1/08/2019 7:07 PM

1996 Mustang shifter. Anyone have any experience removing the T-handle from the lever arm? This one had a hole in the plastic part of the handle, so I assumed there might be a set screw or something. I probed all around with various allen wrenches, then took a 3/16" drill bit to it to clear away the plastic, but there is apparently no fastener there. I want to see if I can install the 2010 shift lever on the 96 lever arm for my 56 F100.
Any ideas, before I commit to hacking on it?

**Posted by Bullet Bob** 1/08/2019 7:27 PM

Didja try pushing in on the spot where the hole is...maybe a spring loaded pin.

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**Posted by Bullet Bob** 1/08/2019 7:43 PM

According to StangNet there is one small Allen set screw (like a 66?). Get a maggot fryer...look closer.
Don't hack on it, you'll hose up the lock-release cable mechanism.
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**Posted by Bolted to Floor** 1/08/2019 10:34 PM

Found this video on YouTube. The guy callls out a size 2 metric Allen wrench to remove set screw. Push in button on shifter handle and pull hard!!

https://youtu.be/FlLp--0DWm8

**Posted by MS** 1/09/2019 10:25 PM

The one on youtube is a different year. No little screw like that one has. Cannot find a set screw. Looks like I will have to start cutting. Carefully.

**Posted by Hornman** 1/09/2019 10:35 PM

Threads? Bayonett mount?

**Posted by lowercasesteve** 1/09/2019 11:26 PM

Roll pin? Or rivet? Maybe they did not want removed?

Last edited by lowercasesteve (1/09/2019 11:27 PM)

**Posted by 50vert** 1/10/2019 2:53 AM

Just spent half a day finding my 95 shift lever, (surprising what else I found).
It takes a 5/64 allen key, in the same location as yours.

**Posted by HudginJ3** 1/10/2019 10:16 AM

On my 97 T-Bird, push the button in while in neutral. Then stand up on top of it and pull straight up with all you got. It will come loose and you will hit your self in the chest.

**Posted by MS** 1/10/2019 10:38 AM

HudginJ3 wrote:
On my 97 T-Bird, push the button in while in neutral. Then stand up on top of it and pull straight up with all you got. It will come loose and you will hit your self in the chest.

Sounds like a possibility. I sure cannot find any set screw in there.

Maybe I will heat the plastic first to help it let loose.

Really would prefer steering column shifter instead on the truck, but can’t beat Ford parts, especially for something that gets used as much as a shifter.

With the GM floor shifter that was in it when I bought it, you would have to find the shift hande, stick it on the shifter snd then push the button to move the lever. Probably a GM theft deterrent invention...

**Posted by Bolted to Floor** 1/10/2019 10:48 AM

If you want a column shifter, what about a tilt steering column from a 73-79 Ford Truck?? Or an Ididit column?

**Posted by 6sally6** 1/10/2019 3:53 PM

This might work Steve..........
After you "put-heat-to-it" ....find yourself an old bumper jack......or a good "come along"..
6s6

**Posted by Rudi** **Online!** 1/10/2019 6:20 PM

You got it Sal, or I have yet to see anything thing that won't submit to a BFH.

**Posted by MS** 1/10/2019 10:23 PM

I have a torch, hack saw, cutoff wheel, bfh, and some pb blaster at my disposal. It WILL come off!

Already have an aftermarket tilt column, but for floor shift. I think I will wind up building a custom console and use the floor shifter. New IDIDIT column with shifter is over $600.