# Tomei Short Shifter! HELP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\ **Created:** [March 23, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677 "2008-03-23T00:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/1 "2008-03-23T00:26:35Z")
i just bought a tomei short shifter for my 180sx when i install it for some reason it can be lifted up and down… vertically… even with the new block installed that holds the dust boot on… i can fit a snap ring on top of the bush socket… but that wouldnt allow me to put the shifter in the bush socket… i dont understand… its like the shifter just wont go deep enough into the tranny… but its as far as it goes…-----\> YET (as i said it goes up and down… with it up to where i think it should be/to as far as it will go up with the tomei block plate over it… it still shifts perfectly fine!.. leading me to beleive that all i need is a bigger “Collar” or spacer if you will…) now this is my theory … please help if you can! basically here is a link to a picture that i need you to look at and tell me if this makes sense to you [http://www.pdm-racing.com/installs/sshifterhelp/sld009.htm](http://www.pdm-racing.com/installs/sshifterhelp/sld009.htm) take a look at the “collar” see how thick it is… well the one that i got with this shifter _i should mention i got it used from an importer in a toyota bag lol so chances are their might be a wrong part?_ is quite small… infact its less than half the size of the collar in that picture… do you think that… that is the reason for my shifter going up and down? or do you know the size of the one that came with your tomei shifter?? please any help will be greatly appreciated! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/2 "2008-03-23T00:29:45Z")
i understand pictures would be key and i probably look like a douche now… but i lost the digital camera cables in my recent move to a new house and its not a regular usb which i just happen to have at least 10 lying around :oops: :oops: :oops: ---
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/3 "2008-03-23T00:56:10Z")
![http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/GoTTi17/sil802.jpg](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/GoTTi17/sil802.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/4 "2008-03-23T00:56:50Z")
That is a picture of the collar besides a pen to show you the size ---
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/5 "2008-03-23T16:47:45Z")
looky what i found ![http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/GoTTi17/missing_shifter_spacer.jpg](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/GoTTi17/missing_shifter_spacer.jpg) it is the wrong collar!! 😃 So this is for anyone eles with the same shifter problem!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![turbo200](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbo200/32/5814_2.png) [@turbo200](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turbo200)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/6 "2008-03-29T13:19:07Z")
mine does the same thing… ---
**Author:** ![Kouki\_monster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kouki_monster/32/5711_2.png) [@Kouki\_monster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Kouki_monster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/7 "2008-03-29T17:28:02Z")
well theres the answer. go to a machine shop and get a collar fabb’d up to those specifications… mines perfect now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bulletx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bulletx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bulletx)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/8 "2008-06-02T23:57:57Z")
Hey bud, this might help: [http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=307423&page=1](http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=307423&page=1) ---
**Author:** ![fayiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a698b9/32.png) [@fayiz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fayiz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tomei-short-shifter-help/148677/9 "2008-06-22T17:38:54Z")
**That tutorial is wrong.** Whoever made it, did it completely wrong and defeated the whole point of the short shifter. His shift throw will be exactly the same as they were before. That metal spacer goes underneath everything…there’s a second c-clip that has to come out in order to get it underneath the lower yellow plastic piece that the ball sits on. Otherwise everything ends up at the same height as before, and your short shifter becomes a stock shifter. and I believe will already fixed his short shifter.