I think I've got it now, but only miles will tell.

One more thing I forgot to write.  In researching all the ways people fix
these I came across the thing again about "do not reset the trip odo while
the van is moving!"  before I fixed mine the metal gear was turning very
freely and I experimented with resetting the trip odo while feeling the
load on that gear whether it was moving or not.  I could not feel any
additional load on that gear no matter what I did.  As soon as I started
depressing that button it took all the load off that gear rotating.  no
matter how I let it go I didn't feel any grabbing or popping or anything
that seems like it could affect the gear or what connects to it.

Edward

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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
>