Dashboard levers

[bobbo]

During our rainy spring I'm changing out my plastic dash on the SV to a solid walnut. Just hit an issue with the temperature and screen / floor levers. How do you get the little black knobs off of the lever arms so the arms can be drawn back through the face plate? I see a small drilling on each of the knobs, which may hold a clue, but I'm not about to force anything.
If you have done it let me know how.
Cheers, Bob

 

[Tim R]

If I remember correctly it is a tiny Allan Screw in the hole. I haven't done it for a while but I think that is what is on the Alpine.

Tim R

 

[junkman]

They pull off I believe.

 

[sunalp]

Jeffs right, they just pull off, though not always easily. They can get stuck pretty well!

 

[65sunbeam]

Insert a paperclip into the hole on the bottom of the plastic knob and it will pull off.

 

[alpine_64]

During our rainy spring I'm changing out my plastic dash on the SV to a solid walnut.
Cheers, Bob

Bob.. Do you have/ are you aware the mounts for the controls on the wood dasha cars have their own brackets?

@DanR used to make some iirc

 

[bobbo]

For the mounts, I intend to use some angled bar cut to fit, and attached to the back of the dash.
That should give the support needed. I'll try to pull the knobs later today.
Thanks

 

[67brg]

when I did mine I used some stock angle iron from a local lumber yard that had holes drilled every inch or so. Screwed them to the back of the dash and mounted the slide levers to the existing holes in the angle iron. Never came loose and functioned perfectly with very little installation effort

 

[sunalp]

Dan R makes these brackets and they're like the originals. Not real expensive either. I've
used quite a few of them over the years and they're really great.