i bought my car about a week ago its a 96 civic ex and it has a short shifter and an aftermarket exhaust and for some od reason my shifter when trying to put it in 5th or reverse hits the exhaust underneath and makes it hard as hell sometimes to put in reverse and also the short shifter is constantly shaking and making noise do to that. any one else have this problem? any ideas on how to fix it? please help

 

look underneath car at shifter and exhuast maybe the bolts came out or something is broke check for where it is rubbing

 

mine rubs occasionaly too
ive heard its common with short shifters

 

i just take a grinder and cut my stock shifter and make my own short shifter so i can't tell ya.

 

What makes a shifter a short shifter is the metal between the pivot ball and the linkage joint is longer than stock. Cutting the shifter to be shorter than stock doesn't make it a short throw shifter, it just makes it literally a short shifter.


Cheap no-name aftermarket short throw shifters often have the metal between the pivot ball and the linkage joint a little bit too long, causing the shifter to hit the exhaust.

 

thats what i said short shifter not short throw shifter lol

 

But no one else is talking about "short" shifters. They're talking about short throw shifters.

 

idk wat to do bout that... it has everything (meaning its all connected correctly) there but idk how to fix it

 

The only real solution is to get a better short throw shifter.

 

So trust your saying the shifter you sold me was crap wtf?!?!?!?!?!?