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deaconhp:
This may be covered somewhere BUT

Have just installed a newly (correctly) rebuilt 1969 Ford shifter and getting the  blasted shifter past the lockout to reverse is like near impossible. The linkage is aligned so do not need to go there...

Anyone have useful ideas on how to "break" in the lockout spring??????

Not the tranny or the linkage, it is the shifter.


Other than buy a Hurst setup :)

Thanks all

Brian Conway:
Correctly rebuilt and the linkage is aligned.  Yes it should go into reverse but it doesn't ?  So it would seem one of the two is not functioning correctly.  I think if you follow the directions given in the 69 Shop Manual pg.  06-03-02 IN-VEHICLE ADJUSTMENTSAND REPAIRS.  Pay particular attention to the sequence and step 2.  It is an easy fix.   Brian

CharlesTurner:
Make sure the reverse lever on the trans is all the way to one side before adjusting the rod.  It's not centered like the other 2 levers.

deaconhp:
Thanks for getting responses started....

The issue is not with "going into" reverse....it is getting the shifter past the lockout gate, the spring if you will that the shifter must "slip" by.

I took several pics before the tranny went in....it is the "V" shaped "spring" that the lever must pass to get to the reverse lever.

deaconhp:
And I have the blue books so saw all the detail on installation. It is just the dag gum "spring"...... have put some lube on it and if you pull left hard enough it goes but geez it is a hard pull...

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