Yeah, I had mine out several times before the aggregated fixes kept it working. I have probably just jinxed myself. 

Stephen

Mobile

> On Jun 22, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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