I purchased a shifter rebuild kit but I can’t work out how to remove the old upper shifter pivot ball bushing and wave washer. Does anyone know how to remove it?
If it’s the black plastic limiter shift plate it unclips from that metal spring washer. On mine it just prised off easily.
Thanks for your reply. I got the shift plate off no problem as it uncliped, as you say, and it pulls up off the shifter. The upper pivot ball bushing and wave washer can’t go down past the ball or up over the shift stick. I’ll post another picture.
I notice in your first picture, the shaft (gear shifter) that sleeves over the lower part looks like it may have a retaining pin going through it.
Never had the need disassemble that part on my previous NC’s, I wonder if that pin drifts out for removing that piece.
Of course before you start trying to do that I’d wait for further advice, mines only guesswork.
I don’t see a retaining pin. Are you seeing the splodge of bluTack I put on the black part of the shifter to note the orientation of it 
. Apparently, if you get the front to back the wrong way round, the gear knob doesn’t orientate itself properly when screwed down.
From what I remember, it’s in there pretty tight. I ended up using a small punch and hammer to carefully tap it out from the inside.
Are you talking about using a punch & hammer to move one of the pins out the way in the turret so that the lower pivot ball bushing and wave washer can be replaced? If so, it did this bit already, and yes, the pin was tight but moved with a heafty blow with a large pin punch and hammer.
Go about 5 mins in to this video - does it help ?
False info by me then👎
