I started to install my new short shift, got a call to leave, so I had to put everything back together.
I got as far as removing the top 4 bolts that hold down the rubber boot under the actual boot and the 3 bolts that hold the bracket that sits ontop of the shift ball. NOW when I started screwing those bolts back in and got everything put back together. And got moving.. umm I lost 5th and 6th gear..

WHAT DID I DO WRONG!! PLEASE HELP!

 

when you unscrewed your shift **** did you hold the shifter with a set of vice grips or just unscrewed it off

 

just unscrewed it

 

just unscrewed it y

 

i can't help you here bud.... but i can warn you that once a mod reads this, he might move/close your thread again.

 

you screwed it up by just unscrewing it

 

Did you put the plate on wrong? There is the part that works as a reverse lock out maybe you have that on the wrong side? It goes to the passanger side, or maybe the shift lever itself got spun or twisted

 

do a search for installing a short shifter. I know that you have to cut out a notch on the plate to be able to go into reverse. maybe it is the same for 5th and 6th gear.

http://www.350zclub.org/BM-shifter.shtml

 

when you reinstalled the triangular piece, you did not line it up perfectly and it's too far over to the passenger side - as a result, those gears are going to be blocked. You need to loosen it back up and shift it over slightly. You can do it with the car in 5th or 6th and move the shifter as you move the plate to where it should be and tighten it back down

 

lmao thats funny

 

+1. Check that plate. the instructions that came with your short shifter should have said something about that too...

 

+1 what Adam said... loosen those bolts, go through all the gears repeatedly to align the plate then tighten it back down...