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I had a similar experience after having the tranny rebuilt. I spoke with a guy that Marino from Pantera East hooked me up with. Even though he hadn't done the rebuild on it he walked me through a couple things. One thing he had me do was use a vice grip on the input shaft where the linkage hooks up and manually see if I could get it in gear. (It takes a fair amount of effort). Have a helper sit in the car and move the gear selector around the various gears while you watch the linkage. I noticed that where the linkage slips over the input shaft and the bolt goes through it to hold it in place was slipping about 5 degrees before the input shaft started to turn. The hole where the bolt goes through had become oversized so I drilled up to the next larger bolt size and put a larger bolt in it. Cured the slop, cured the shifting problem. The unnamed vendors only solution was to crate it back up and ship it back to California but I would have to eat the shipping about $500 if it turned out to be something besides the transmission. This after a full rebuild, 2nd gear synchro and polish job and round trip truck freight from Florida to the tune of about $2600. Didn't even want to discuss what I might check or where else to look. Next time I go to RBT