Please help - my car is stuck

[sleek_vp]

My car is a 2000 vs ute - v6 getrag 5spd, I just finished installing a billet shifter and now I can't select reverse. It's like when you move the shifter to reverse its physically can't go into gear and in can only go in to 4th - next to reverse (5th is a little hard to get into as well), i did tighten the selector linkage under the car with shims but I though that would have helped with gear selection, cheers for any advise people

 

[Immortality]

Try taking the shims out.

 

[sleek_vp]

yea might have to, has anyone fitted a billet shifter to a 5 spd getrag and had any problems afterwards?

 

[sleek_vp]

fixed the problem, the shifter was hitting the base plate before it found the reverse gate, just moved the plates out for enough clearance, but now i don't have reverse lights ffs, any ideas?

 

[sleek_vp]

got reverse lights now, problem was, the reverse light switch wasn't screwed in tight, went to remove it and found to be loose

 

[Immortality]

Ahh, you mean those little plates you need to set to prevent you pushing the shifter to far and abusing the synchro's.

 

[sleek_vp]

all sorted now, holy s#$t its different to shift now, feels like a race car gearbox, tight solid very close gears, it has reduced the throw by 75% barely feels like it goes into gear

 

[Immortality]

Good isn't it