Help With Short Shifter Install

[SargeRX8]

The short shifter guide on here isn't working, the pix are down.

Never the less I was trying to fit the short shifter on my old rb25 box sitting in the garage. I understand(I think) how it all goes together.

Remove the circlip

Remove the old shifter

Remove the second circlip

Unscrew the short shifter and fit the washer plastic thing above the big ball thing

Put it in the hole

Push it down

Put the metal spacer in

Put the square thing in and bolt it in place.

Problem is I cant get them to go deep enough. The short shifter has alot of up down play and feels very loose. Alot of reading shows that the plastic thing at the end of the short shifter is too small.

If I change this will it sit firm? Why do I have up and down movement? The screws wont reach the funny brackets provided to hold it in place. Am I missing something?

This is the kit: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130466129687&ssPageName=ADME:X:eRTM:AU:1123

Although I did buy it from a chap over here.

Any help would be great.

R33 Series 2 GTST.

[mad082]

i had to put a short shifter into a mates 33 years ago. think we had a similar issue. i just played around with things and made sure that everything was sitting in place properly and it was fine. just try putting things in different orders until it works.

oh and i think i had to use something extra from the stock shifter than the instructions said you didn't need to, but i can't exactly remember.

[89CAL]

Yeah there's a trick to it. Think you need the larger plastic collar from the stock shifter but not sure

I made my own solid short shifter. Much easier when it's all factory lol

[SargeRX8]

The thing at the end or the thing that sits above ball thing? I got it to sit further down but still the screws wont reach.

Edited December 21, 2010 by SargeRX8

[SargeRX8]

Update: Bought longer M6 bolts and it seems to do the trick. Works very nice on my garage box. Just waiting for my line to come home so I can put it on for real. Feel so nice and firm, I love it.

[SargeRX8]

Update again:

What the f**k, this thing is so loud. I looked at the nissan one it has rubber shit inside the lower half to dampen sound. This solid metal shit brings every sound from the gearbox all I hear is whirring now. Any way to get rid of this?