I got my repair kit today and thought it would be a breeze to install
well it ended up becoming a tornado of curse words, hammers and confusion.

Ok First I had to beat out the shifter pins. I got one out and the other one was in there.

So I had to take the shifter pan out to get the other one out because due to the angle, i could not use my chisel sqaurely.

So after those were out, i put the washer, then the bushing, then the shifter, then its bushing, the the top cover.

Then I go to put the bolt in the shifter and discovered when i had hammred it out of the shifter, i ruined part of the threading and had to put it and a vice and run it thorugh the nut a couple times, then I isntalled it and found that I had put it in the worng hole and it wont shift, so i had to take it appart again, due to the bolt being up i took 15 minutes each time to install it.

But it shifts like a new one with no play at all, the noise is gone too.

 

Well, glad it worked out for you, eventually!

 

Yeah, same here. The shifter bolt screwed me the first time because I didn't know how it worked. I even took a pipe wrench to my shifter thinking it would unscrew that way. But after having to remove it a few times myself, I can get it done in a few minutes flat. She shifts fine but now I have to handle a "hanging" RPM problem while shifting,.............uuuuggggg!!! Again, glad to hear it worked out.