Thanks, Spooky Jay. Salutations and best wishes right back at you.

That's good you confirmed my suspicions about overall degradation of the polymerized rubber and not being able to get glues to stay bound. Further adhesive attempts on my #2 knob will thus likely be short lived at best, as I rather suspected. Time to break open the piggy bank again and buy another one.

You say a violent upward yank for removal. Guess it wouldn't hurt for me to spend a few hours reading world political news to get me frustrated and in the mood for violence. Art has an easier and more sophisticated method for 240s involving 2x4s and leverage that I once thought would work for our 940s. If a few good yanks don't do it, I'll probably go straight for the razor knife to slit it up the front and peel it off.

I was going to cut the OD button wires off leaving a couple of mm of bare wire for later soldering. The reason I mentioned hoping for enough wire slack was that I've had the entire trans shifter assembly apart before (not something I recommend as reassembly is difficult) and hope I left the original amount of slack at the base of the column. I'm fairly sure I would have as I'm quite aware of removal, even had one out once when dealing with the shift lock tab and wanting access from the back so I could hold the rod with needle nosed pliers.

Interesting comment about the gearshift knob still being in the parts chain. You're quite right, if there's a part that's likely going to be NLA, it's that kind of part as many will never need replacing in the life of the car, especially those parked out of the sun. Perhaps it started to become a known issue and they stocked up on extra before the end of production. More likely, it's easy to slip an order for just 50-100 of them alongside a larger order for newer model gearshift knobs. It may be fairly easy to dig out the old mold and stick it in the same manufacturing line, hopefullly using a better compound.

Wish that was true for the larger '95 (and '94?) 940 fuel tank pickup assemblies that I'll soon be looking for. Hopefully my local yard has a later 940 with one.
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Dave -still with 940's, prev 740/240/140/120 You'd think I'd have learned by now