so are you implying that it could be shifter assembly itself??

 

I'm just implying that you need to look at all these things. It's a fairly basic mechanical system though so it's easy to take off the ****, console/boot, then the dust shield and look at it's operation to make sure everything is still in place.

 

actually the guy on the nico forum took out the shift **** with vice grips?? Then I hope I didn’t damaged anything with just turning it by hand lol

 

cool was planning to throw a greedy short shifter in the future so I hope it works out

 

The only part that can be damaged is the bolt that connects the shifter to the transmission. You can inspect that as well by getting under the vehicle, remove it and see if it's bent or anything.

EDIT: But yes typically you want to use something to hold onto the shift rod while you unscrew the ****. Unless it takes little effort to unscrew like some vehicles. Usually though the ones on the G35 are loctite into place and require a LOT of torque to break them free.

 

ahh yes I’ve seen people on YouTube that install short shifters and they show off that assembly underneath the car.So could it potentially just be loose from the bottom? That bolt?

 

as in my case I say out of 1-10 my strength was a 5 that I had to put to take out my old shift **** with one hand

 

If you've already pressed the shifter down and to the right, and the difficulty comes in getting the **** towards you into reverse, that's the drivetrain slack combined with the unsyncronized reverse gear.... most manual cars get like that as they age including my old '05 Corolla. if you put it into first before trying reverse and/or clutch in/out slightly while you're trying to get it into reverse, it'll fall right into gear. If doing that doesn't help, your clutch may not be disengaging all the way.

Fixing your drivetrain mounts will make it so you don't have to do this as much but there's nothing you can really do about backlash in the transmission, CV joints, driveshaft, and differential etc short of replacing literally everything and a little backlash in those components is normal on an older car and nothing to worry about until it starts having axial play and causing vibrations.

 

This, it's worked on all of the manual cars I've driven including my current GTO.

 

drive train mounts as in transmission mount?

 

Here’s the little screw/bolt I was talking about.Seems like with a longer shift ****,it takes quite a while to press down on that bolt compared to the oem short one

 

BTW I know it looks ugly which is why I’m changing it to my oem one

 

Ummmmm no. Read the red, bolded text again in the quoted post.

 

yea I searched up drive train mounts and all that came up was trans mount and motor mounts

 

oh I’m sorry I didn’t know what you were referring to but now I do