feeling about as dumb as they can get i have to remove my m5 tranny last car i did was a 1980 trans 20 years ago and was done in mins done in 5 mins but i cant even get the shifter out to let tranny drop losened all the console bolts but didnt remove console cant get rubber boot off floor nor cant get shifter out tryied turning prying ,someone please some one remove my stupidity tag from my head

 

Usually I just unscrew the stick from the bottom part of the shifter. No need to even remove the consel plate that way. From there it should be very close to the last one you did...with the exception of the torque arm. It's a good idea to remove the distributor cap so it doesn't hit the firewall too.

 

ty guess will try unscrewing the shifter guess they dont unscrew easily

 

ok i know i was told very hard to get off if never off befor but um i am worried about breaking this thing and i dont want to do that cuz i need it .tried using vice grips ,was about to use pipe wrench but figured see what other people have done befor i break it and it puts me farther back trying to find another one

 

just remove the console then, you would be done by now. camaro or firebird? the bird consoles are a million times easier to get out than the multi piece camaro ones

 

its a camaro and i have it lose and mostly out of the way but i am trying not to take the whole car apart to get the engine and tranny out

 

Not sure how a Camaro one is that hard? If a Bird one is any easier or quicker to remove than a Camaro one, you must be able to just walk up to the car and stand next to it and holler "Console! Jump out NOW!" and it just does it all by itself.

Takes like 5 minutes to pop a whole Camaro console out, and maybe 15 to put it back. It'd be quicker with power tools I suppose, dunno, doesn't seem worthwhile to try... it's so quick with hand tools. And of course, that's allowing enough time to crack open a cold one at each of various critical moments. If you don't dilly-dally around like me, I'm sure you could get it done in far less time than that.

You could also get underneath it and pop the whole shifter off with a 13mm offset box-end wrench on the 4 bolts tha thold it to the trans. That takes longer though... could be as much as 7 minutes maybe, if you're as slow as me (I sure hope not, NOBODY is THAT slow). I know, I admit, it's embarrassing; but it REALLY does take me that long sometimes.

 

i took the whole console out and removed the 4 bolts now just have to wait till tomarrrow cuz my garage has no heat an dwinter came back but ty for all your help and it took me about 6 1/2 mins so i guess i am faster than you.....lol hoping to have everything out apart and on the way to the machine shop tomarrow