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Originally posted by dentist90
Reverse lockout works great... played with shifter before re-installing. Problem is if I set up 5th so that lockout cam slips in behind shift lever I nick R on the pullback to 4th, even before it reaches neutral plane. Even if I keep pressure to the left (toward 3-4 plane) while shifting out of 5th I get the grind. Shifting while not moving is fine, but the gears aren't spinning then. Frustrating! I had to move my neutral plane just the opposite of what you were suggesting to stay out of trouble, ie move neutral plane closer to R than 5th so I could get shift lever unlocked from the shift tab and over to 4th plane before R shift fork starts to move. I tried it the other way and I couldn't go from 5 -4 at all. Had to stop the car completely before I could get out of 5th without grinding R! Luckily no traffic. Right now It's functional, but only about 1/3 of locking tab is overlapped in 5th and lockout cam doesn't click in. Transmission internal shift distances just don't seem to jive with shifter design, but it is the factory SSKit. R being non-synchronized is pretty obvious as there is immediate clashing if I begin to pull back into R zone... no balking here! 1-4 shifts are a breeze no matter how I have adjusted, just moves the shift knob either closer or farther away.
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Sounds like the shift fork for 5th/reverse was misaligned by whomever rebuilt the trans last.
5th/reverse is different than the other shift fork adjustments in that you want the slider to be very close to the 5th gear synchro, and a good distance away from reverse. Maybe someone centered them between the two like is done for 1-2 and 3-4.
Just a guess.