This seems to be a constant issue with every 1st gen I have ever bought. Didn't someone on the forum used to offer a nice replacement shift boot? I have a really clean interior other than that. I can glue it I guess, but I would like to fix it permanently. Never seen a glued one hold more than about 2 weeks, and then it really looks like canned ***....

If you have a source, please share!

 

I bought one from these guys recently along with a handbrake boot. I quite like it, especially over the standard! Haha. Good prices too

https://www.rx7club.com/1st-gen-non-...-ride-1002694/

 

Redline leather. Look on vendor forum. Mine works and looks good too.

 

I glued one a couple of months ago and then drove the car to Seven Stock on vacation (some 4000 miles) and it is still holding strong. Look back in the What did I do to my FB today thread under non technical. I tried several glue materials and found a Silicone rubber glue that holds adequately to both kinds of materials. I used clear but I think black would also have worked but required more care in application.

Doug

 

How do y'all attach those leather boots to the plastic shifter surround? Seems like you'd have the same problem as the stock boot if the pins are broken off, which they almost always are.

I'll give that silicon a try Doug, not much to loose. But I've seen glued ones before that did not hold up well and you don't want the glue to show on the edge of the boot

One thing I did a few years ago was cut a doughnut out of styrofoam that fit snugly on top of the tranny and filled up most of the space around the sides of the shifter with a hole in the middle so that the shifter boot was pressed up against the backslide of the shifter plate.

Looked like this:









Worked pretty well for several months, but the styrofoam started to get old and worn down after awhile. Next time I'll use some other kind of foam material that's sturdier and holds up to high temp better.

 

The redline boot has Velcro attached with peel off glue strip. I didn't use it.
Kinda like Ray, but with different intent, I cut a piece of underhood silencer material from a junkyard car and fit it over the tranny and around the shifter as silencer. The leather boot is just tucked in but has been fine for 6 months now.

 

I used super glue gel, and it's been holding strong for more than 10 years. I cleaned and scuffed both surfaces first.

 

agreed, I have used a high end super glue and the boots that i have glued have never popped loose. the glue has held your many years and through every season. i'll grab you a pic and post it tomorrow morning.

 

I used painters caulk on mine and its been holding strong for a few months now. If this fails i will do the glue.

 

Well hell with it. Gonna buy glue tomorrow. Next thing I need to find is a new rear view mirror with lamp lens. My mirror shakes like a dog sh!tting a peach seed, and the lens is gone

 

I scuffed both surfaces with a Scotchbrite pad. I supported the surround upside down on two boxes such that the boot hangs straight down through the surround. A thin bead along the lip all around and then lowered the boot into place. Then I gooped the heck out of it making a glue button through each missing pin hole and around the sides. Let cure overnight and done.

One other poster used superglue. I have developed a respiratory problem when I use superglue so I never even think of it anymore. There is a variant that is thick and remains flexible after cure and I could imagine working really well.

I think the foam block support is pretty clever.

Doug

 

I wonder if a thin piece of metal could be made that had pins welded on. The metal would be the same dimension of the boot bottom. The metal would get glued to the plastic shifter sound. This would give the boot tabs that would not snap off lick the plastic ones.

 

Somewhere on here there's a thread where somebody bought brass rod to replace the pins. Cut to length and glued on. Apparently with good result.

 

^ maybe ill try this within the next few months

 

So you carefully drill out a hole the diameter of the brass rod and deep enough to hold the rod but not poke through the surface?

Sounds like it might work.