Originally Posted by Romad

My replacement $420 shift linkage assembly arrived today. Have to make a judgement call wheather it's the tranny shifter problem or is it bad syncronizers! Guess i have 30 days to figure it out to be able to return it or not! Probably have to seek out a "real" mechanic to troubleshoot the problem. I do know the reverse lockout is out of adjustment.

From what I can ascertain from the Service Manual, there are no adjustments to the shifter assembly except for the Reverse Lockout. Probably going to mean the tranny syncros are worn as the car has 170K miles on her. When cold it shifts sorta ok but once warmed up it's difficult to go from 1st to 2nd as it wants to go 1st to 4th gear. Don't think I like fishing around for gears. Buying another tranny is not totally out of the question as I bought the car at almost scap yard price. It would really be a lot of hard work for me to pull the tranny in my driveway laying on my old 78 year old back.

My new vacuum pump arrived today so I guess I'll work on that tomorrow and try getting the locks working.