Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I purchased one from ebay some years ago and I think it looks pretty good so I ended up getting one for the handbrake to match.

From what I remember you push down the plastic(or metal) ring on top of the gaiter this give you access the bottom of the gear knob. This has a plastic lug which locates on the stick you’ll just need to get something under to lift it. The gear surround is just a push fit so you should be able to lift it from as far back as you can just using your fingers on both sides. This does have one/two connecters for the controls so be careful. After that the gaiter is held in by some horrible washer type thing you’ll have to use pilers to remove. I think I managed to break some and ended up replacing them with self tapping screws and washers (maybe) . I can’t remember which one was glued on(handbrake !?) so I used some PVA just to stick it down. It was pretty easy replacing both from what I remember and they made a big difference to the way it looked.

IslandGPS wrote:

Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I did mine at the weekend.
It costs about £8 for the gaiter, took an hour to fit.

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Push the top of the gaiter down, this then frees up the Gear Knob to be removed. Gear surround is easy to remove as it just click into place. Removing the washer things is a PITA to do and I ended up breaking a few. Cheapo leather one from ebay fitted pretty easily , unlike the other poster who used PVA i used Superglue to afix the new Gaiter into place on the fittings
. Final results when fitted are well worth it.
There are videos on Youtube of how to remove the gaiter if youre not sure how to do it...example

Scudmonkey wrote:

Cheapo leather one from ebay fitted pretty easily , unlike the other poster who used PVA i used Superglue to afix the new Gaiter into place on the fittings
. Final results when fitted are well worth it.

Nodge68 wrote:

IslandGPS wrote:

Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I did mine at the weekend.
It costs about £8 for the gaiter, took an hour to fit.

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It's Gaiter time !

I replaced mine this morning. Purchased off of eBay. The gaiter is good quality genuine Italian leather but it is generic item, fits FL2 but not tailored like the old one. Had elastic fitted to base, which I had to unpick in order to glue to frame. Looks good, overall ..... pleased.

IslandGPS wrote:

Nodge68 wrote:

IslandGPS wrote:

Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I did mine at the weekend.
It costs about £8 for the gaiter, took an hour to fit.

Click image to enlarge

Thanks looks like a nice neat job, just done mine using superglue to attach gaiter to the template. Not really happy with the finish below the gear knob though, the opening at the top of the replacement gaiter was a little tight to accept the plastic “square” piece and I had to snip a couple of stitches to fit it in. I have not glued that in place within the gaiter yet, did you do that?

IslandGPS wrote:

Nodge68 wrote:

IslandGPS wrote:

Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I did mine at the weekend.
It costs about £8 for the gaiter, took an hour to fit.

Click image to enlarge

Thanks looks like a nice neat job, just done mine using superglue to attach gaiter to the template. Not really happy with the finish below the gear knob though, the opening at the top of the replacement gaiter was a little tight to accept the plastic “square” piece and I had to snip a couple of stitches to fit it in. I have not glued that in place within the gaiter yet, did you do that?

3landertwo wrote:

It's Gaiter time !

I replaced mine this morning. Purchased off of eBay. The gaiter is good quality genuine Italian leather but it is generic item, fits FL2 but not tailored like the old one. Had elastic fitted to base, which I had to unpick in order to glue to frame. Looks good, overall ..... pleased.

Nodge68 wrote:

IslandGPS wrote:

Nodge68 wrote:

IslandGPS wrote:

Can anyone provide details on how to replace this. The original LR part LR002758 is around £70.00 but leather equivalents are available on eBay for much less.

I did mine at the weekend.
It costs about £8 for the gaiter, took an hour to fit.

Click image to enlarge

Thanks looks like a nice neat job, just done mine using superglue to attach gaiter to the template. Not really happy with the finish below the gear knob though, the opening at the top of the replacement gaiter was a little tight to accept the plastic “square” piece and I had to snip a couple of stitches to fit it in. I have not glued that in place within the gaiter yet, did you do that?

I didn't need to glue the top, as it's a really snug fit around the gear knob. If it comes loose in future, I'll add a dab of CA.