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Nice fix. But your arm is actually attached upside-down. Flip it over and re-adjust your linkage so that the column lever can't move the pawl too far, and then confirm the rest of the gear positions are correct.

Don't worry, the arm orientation annoys me as well because there is nowhere in the 55 service manual that it actually tells you how to do it. There is a step and photo, but they reused the different and incompatible 54GS (or earlier?) photo and explanation.

Top view in the factory drawing.

And that's why I post this stuff!!!!

Almost everything is guess work for me due to limited info in the manual!

I did have it the other way and could NOT get the linkage ratio to work at all....

I will test it out again since I had been attempting those adjusntments prior to the trans rebuild.

Updates to follow (unless everyone is tired of this thread by now)!