Reply to "shifting problem"

Ok. Marlin is exactly right. The turn buckle, which is where he said it was and is like a long nut with two shorter nuts on either side of it, not only adjusts the length. But depending on how you thighten it back up, center from side to side. After you get the length exactly right, you gotta make sure the shifeter in the car is exactly centered and stays that way while you tighten the turnbuckle. If you do that and it still has trouble getting into reverse or say fith, it means that the allan screws inside the ZF housing are loose. That means you have to tighten them and then readjust your turnbuckle again. If you are relying on your ujoints for cenetering or length adjustments, I garuntee you you will be very unhappy. My linkage right now is so smooth you can not tell if it went into gear, in other words, you feel no "clunk", hear absolutly no noise, feel no resistance. It is fluid, smooth and efortless. Having dinked with the stupid thing for so long, I may now be the worlds leading expert on how to adjust a Pantera shifter linkage. And I will tell everyone, if I was designing the thing it would come out a hell of a lot better. I came this close to designing and building a remote shifter jusst to get away from this pain in the ass proceedure.