continuing to the repairs, I figured that if I was going to go through all this work, I was going to keep it... ulcers, headaches and all... I took a couple last drives before butchering it up, and in the process, trans #7 started acting up, the way all the others did, slipping badly between gear changes...I had always noticed some stiffness in the shifter "feel", and thought maybe a stretched or kinked cable, so I reached out to friends I still had in the auto parts industry, and was amazed at the lack of availability and description for these....I got one in, and after getting the old one out, realized that the new one was not the correct one. the original was also not kinked and the cable seemed to slide pretty easily. figured maybe it was in a bind going through the floor. I set about putting the old cable back in, and once I got it in, the shifter barely wanted to move.... I had come across this before, and never figured it out, so it got me thinking. I tried a few cable adjustments, and nothing worked. I was frustrated beyond belief, I couldn't even put it in park and barely pull it into drive.... the one thing tha had been a constant throughout it's time with me, was the fact that I was never able to re-start the car in neutral, as the lockout mechanism had been out of adjustment or something to that effect, so I decided to take the entire thing out, get the shifter working again, and go back to it.... low and behold, just taking that out resulted in free and proper movement of the shifter! it even shifted gears properly again! I'm now starting to think that I may have 2 rebuilt 700r4's at the shop tucked away, that might be good after all! trans #7 is still in the car to this very moment, even if the electrical gremlins have killed that battery right here in the driveway.....
