Thanks much. Think I found the problem. As you suggest, but way
different reason.

Of note, transmission fell off jack once. This shows what must have
happened. Thankfully I have a spare part!

Shot video to see what linkage doing.

Short 2.6 MB clip of shifter at transmission, reverse, 1,2,3,4, reverse:

http://tubanick.shawwebspace.ca/asset/view/27622/dk_trans._shifter_linkage.mov

I think I found the problem.   ;)

Neil.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Michael Tevis <michaeltevis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> the H pattern can seem ok but you could be shifting into 3rd and 4th in both
> locations. i had this happen on a customers van that had some worn shifter
> parts. i rotated the shifter shaft on the splines one spline over. these are
> the splines on the shifter shaft near the u-joint where the forward shaft
> meets the rear shaft. one spline at a time. one spline makes a big
> difference. make a mark for reference. i just use a scribe to scratch the
> valley in between splines.
>

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