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You may want John's post carefully, the part about the activating pin. That is the reverse light activating pin. When I did this to my car I made the mistake of taking the activating pin out and then thinking I could hit the reverse shaft with a metal punch or a dowel. After some futility I realized the ill logic of this approach, but not before I had deformed the dowel pin hole to where I could not insert it back in place. I know, kind of dumb. I ended up trying to fit a welding rod, sawed off screw driver, thin screw, any thing that would fit through the small aperture, but to no avail. I just couldn't get the proper angle and all of these things were just bending as I tried to push. I then had to drop the nose of the trans and found that a (4mm?) allen wrench leveraged by one of those flat crow bars finally did the trick. To my relief the allen wrench travelled forward with a clunk, clunk. I then quickly started the car, the rear end supported by jacks and voila! My reverse stick problem was solved! I think I had experienced more relief than joy.
Oh by the way, when you take that reverse switch out, make sure you have a bucket handy, because the fluids going to come pouring out. Of course you may just want to drain it first, that is if you're one of those foward thinking persons that actually plans ahead. I bet you can guess which type I am.
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