1986 with AT

Been in there twice before getting the plastic gear secured, this time it
was the gray metal one slipping on the other end of the same shaft.  I
really didn't want to take the plastic gear off since I finally got it
secured on the previous repair.  I had also made a stop so that it or the
whole shaft couldn't slide out in that direction.

So I slid that shaft back just enough that I could get the gray metal gear
out of there.  I put in in a vise and peened those collars around the shaft
hole on both sides of the gear.  when I went to slide the shaft back
through it, it was very tight.  I ended up using the vise to press it back
in!  I used a small socket to back up the plastic housing the shaft goes
through and turns in.  That went OK and the gear is on there tight.

The other thing I did this time was to rig up a way to test the speedo/odo
off the van.  I used a length of wire that fit in the place where the
speedo cable goes and put the other end in a drill.  That registered about
70mph on the speedo and I could check that all the gears were turning
properly.  If I had done that the previous time I probably would have found
that the gray metal gear was not secure on the shaft.

Edward