I had a rattle, at first I thought it was the plastic gear indicator peice. But I had also wanted to do a small mod to it as well. So I pulled it off. it is a pain but it does come off if you wiggle and pull.

what I found is that inside the knob at the very end of it is a metal plate. I think the rattle is the metal plate up against the actual metal shift lever. Perhaps pulling up a slight bit, or presssing it down really hard would get rid of the rattle.

So I wanted to replace the gear indicator peice. I shopped around a long time to find somethign the right size (size of a Canadian Toonie) I finally found something at a punk shop, it was a fridge magnet for $3.

warning, you will damage your knob with the following (that is never good)

if you take a very small screw driver and slowly work around the ridged top portion of the knob will come off. there are three small clips that hold it to the main knob body. Two of mine broke (could also be the source of the rattle noise)

the plastic gear indicator is sticky taped or light glued to the main body of the knob, pull that off. there is foam there. I then used a Canadian Loonie and super glued the new decorative peice to the loonie I then also used super glue to re-attach the removed part of the knob back onto the main body of the knob. I then ran out of super glue curses, so I used wood glue (can get the peice off easy in the future to change it again if I want) to attach the decorative peice. used electrical tape to hold it tight over night and half the next day, then let sit in sun for 6 hours while I golfed.

turned out great, easy cool mod

oh and no more rattle either.

 

Just a update on this mod, it has been I don't know how long since I did this but..... Still no rattle to date, the wood glue held up on the top ring that holds the decorative piece down.