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Old 12-23-2016, 11:43 AM
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Just reinstalled Muncie transmission, and hooked up the shifter and adjusted the shifter linkage as described by the service manual. I could shift into all gears perfectly fine after following that procedure. I then installed the driveshaft, I did this while the transmission was in neutral. I then go to install the lower boot, prior to installing the lower boot, I wanted to verify everything shifted fineagain, and that's when I found I could no longer shift into a forward gear, only reverse. I removed the levers on the 1/2 and 3/4 and tried to shift them using a wrench, they wouldn't go into a forward gear. They would go into gear prior to the driveshaft installation.

I don't what happened and I don't know what to fix. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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have you tried disconnecting the drive shaft?
you are sure the reverse lever on the case is not engaging reverse, loose bolt at lever?
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Originally Posted by MelWff
have you tried disconnecting the drive shaft?
you are sure the reverse lever on the case is not engaging reverse, loose bolt at lever?
I didn't disconnect the driveshaft, I did remove the cover and I am able to manually move the sliders into all of the gears with the driveshaft connected. It's a new cover, forks, and levers, I'm going to put the old stuff back on and see if I encounter the problem again.

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