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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)!

This is one of the linkages, you can thread it to adjust. It is NOT supposed to be bent, I will have to straighten or replace mine or lengthen the adjustment to compensate.

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Made a new linkage rod with the lever in correct position. Still sticks in park. I'm going to mess with the lengths on the vertical and horizontal rod adjustments now, see if I can find that no stick sweet spot. If not, I'll go back to my other system that seemed to be working.

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Why not tap in the dowel pin a bit to adjust the resting position?

Sometimes that pin gets bent also and should be replaced with a new standard one without the notch.

The root cause is your follower 450354 getting too worn out. But to replace it requires dropping the transmission.

FYI, I am getting more made, because this issue is getting very common.

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