[Walt Fricke]

John M

If your reseal of the transmission shift fork plate doesn't hold, there is another thing you can check:

Is the plate warped.

I generally just use orange Loctite instead of a gasket here, works fine. But it didn't, so I added a gasket. Better, but didn't resolve the issue. Next time I took the fork off and put a straight edge to the machined face of the plate. Aha.

Not too likely to be your problem (I think this is usually the result of a nasty malfunction in the gears, leading to an expensive rebuild, but the bend this causes in the plate gets missed).

But good to know and easy to check.

Walt