Automatic shift knob removal

Is it possible to put in an aftermarket shift knob on my automatic 03 Tacoma? If so how?

 

Google is your friend

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tacoma+shift+knob+removal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

You would need to find one that fits the shaft and allows the button depress operation. also being auto you need to make sure the OD button will operate.

 

Anybody know the answer to this question? I tried the "google is your friend" method, but could not find anything on first gen tacos. From my research, I could relocate the od button and replace with any other push button shifter that fits the shaft. I am having trouble just getting the current one off without just tearing it up and breaking the internal wires. I would like to at least remove it, clean and maybe paint it, maybe replace it, but can't get the dumb thing off. Thanks in advance

 

I'll try to get some pics but one thing Val. Be VERY VERY VERY careful. You do have to take the button apart for the O/D. the wires are connected to the plate inside the button. When you pop the back white piece off the button there is a spring that will fly like free bird if you don't take it off slow.

Once you have the plate out of the button you can slide the shift knob off and pass the plate through the opening.

I replaced my grey one with a black one from a 4Runner to get a little color variation.

 

Thanks frizzman, I'll take a look and see if I can see how to get that button off. I can't visualize being able to get to that button now, but I'll go out and take a look. Pictures will be appreciated, and I'll get some if I figure out how to get it apart.

 

black shift knob and 4wd button/boot from a 4Runner (98-02)



pry out the button with a small flat blade or spudger (it's not in tight, just enough to hold it there)






a bit fuzzy but you can see the back of the actual button



here's the critical part, pry one side and then hold the white plastic piece to prevent it from flying off when you pry the other side (all with little wire length )





the internals of the button



the wire plate slot in the back





my '04 button, a little different than the 4Runner's pictured above.



I re-used my grey button as the 4Runner's operated on a double-click function (two presses to turn on, and two to turn off)

 

Thanks! i painted my centre console black and the brownish knobs look out of place.

 

I did this on a 94 auto 4x4. I removed the over drive button from the shifter and clipped the wire with a little to reattach later. I pulled wire back thru the shifter and relocated the button on the side of the shift console and installed my after market shifter.

 

Awesome, thanks a ton frizzman. I couldn't find that anywhere. So obvious now that I see it.

 

Great pictures

 

How in the world did you get the spring and stuff back together ? I spent 1.5 hours trying to get it back together. Its finally in. But button wont click. I put in the black connector first. Then the spring. Then the white piece. But its like the white piece is too tight with the black connector

 

put the two-wire plate in first. then put the button in. there's a spring-loaded piece on the bottom of it that prevents the plate from sliding in if you put the button in first.

then put the spring in the back of the button bevel. then carefully hold the middle of the white piece and push as centered as you can into the back. try to get the two tabs to snap in almost simultaneously.

it took a couple of tries to get it for me the first time. that little spring looks like a dam progressive spring.

 

I just did this swap out and it took 5 min. Awesome mod

 

Omg thank you. Been searching for this for weeks. Do I have to re-grease anything before putting back? I painted the parts which is why i took apart.

 

I know this is a four year old thread. But why did you have to swap the buttons? I don’t know if it changed over the 4Runner year revisions, but my 1996 4Runner console was plug-n-play and the Overdrive buttons operates exactly like the Tacoma one. Pushed in for on, out for off.

 

the version I had might have been from a later year (01-02?) and for it to register I had to press it in but it didn't stay in. so had to press it again to get it off. almost like a "normal" switch in that it doesn't stay depressed. it's been so long now that I can't really remember but it did not operate in the same manner as the original.

 

I lost the spring for the overdrive

 

Found it! Figured out spring goes between black piece and white and not white piece to inside of shifter. Unfortunately the casing had a broken piece on one side where it clicks into place where it holds down spring. Used black tape as a fix for now.