Removing center console---how to remove gear shift knob?

I'm removing the center console so I can use my newly acquired (as of today) truck on my rural mail route. I'm having difficulty twisting the gear shift knob off so I can remove the console as well as I don't know how to take the emergency brake handle off. Both have to separate from the sock, so the console the levers can slip through the console as it's raised off from the floor and out of the truck.

 

Pull the chrome ring down from the shift knob, the knob can then be unthreaded.

 

Out of curiosity why do you need to remove the console to deliver mail?

 

He's gotta convert it to R/H drive like all the little USPS trucks.

 

LMAO that and he's left handed

 

Yes I need to sit on the right side or toward the ride side of the middle of the truck, so I can operate the vehicle but still reach the window to service a mailbox.

 

This was incredibly helpful yesterday. I got that part done. Any idea how to do it for the emergency brake lever and its sock? Do I need to get a knife and cut the sock off?

 

Our carrier does the whole route backwards, out of a left hand drive.. lol

 

Ooh no. This is bad news if anything were to happen on the route regarding another vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, etc. It's termination and there's really not any grounds for the union to defend the carrier on I've heard.

 

please post pictures of interior after you finish your project. I’d love to see what you complete.

 

Kind of messed up that you have to use your own car. Serious question would it be more cost effective to buy a junker like an old civic and convert it? My aunt is a mail carrier in a rural area and this is what she does. They're cheaper to have worked on and get better gas milage(but your probably don't pay gas right?). Also, I wouldn't want to put all those miles on my truck and have to mod it to be RH drive.

 

Rain, sleet and snow...don't Ya know?

 

I hope you haven't cut the brake handle boot yet. It is just tightly wrapped around a small groove in the end of the handle. Some wiggling and pulling was all I needed to remove mine. You could try a little silicon spray too.

 

Aren't there companies that specialize in bringing used RHD cars and vans from Japan into North America? That is how I would do a rural mail delivery.

 

Hilux comes to mind!