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I'll have more time to write up some instructions this weekend. I hope to also provide some pictures.
For now, I'll just give you a summary. You need to cut three strips of plastic. The plastic needs to be 0.5 mm thick by 8mm wide by 7 cm long. This is pretty thick plastic, if it's too thin it won't work and if it is too thick you won't be able to fit all three pieces in at the same time.
To remove you shift knob,
Put the gear lever in the neutral position
When you shift into reverse there is a collar at the base of the knob that you have to pull up. This part is spring loaded. As a Saab owner you know it well, but anybody who rides in your car will ask you about it!
The plastic collar slides into the shift knob with a small clearance between the collar and the knob. As you may have guessed, there is approximately a 0.5 mm gap.
locate three locations 120* apart around the knob. One location is directly above the "R" on the black plastic collar.
This part is important ... First, pull the black plastic collar up so that the spring is compressed. Slide one of the plastic strips into the gap. Slide the plastic strip straight up into the gap so that only about 2 cm of the plastic is remaining.
While the collar is still retracted (the spring is compressed), slide the other two plastic strips equally spaced around that knob (+-120* relative to the "R"). What you are doing here is placing a piece of plastic such that it prevents allows the black plastic collar to release from catches inside the gear knob.
If you are successful, the black plastic collar will drop down and become detached from the knob. Yeah!
Now, just grasp the knob firmly and rotate CW and CCW to break the adhesive that holds it to the metal shaft. Once you break the adhesive loose, pull the knob off.
That's it!
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