If you remove the shifter, you can see a spring around the control rod, I think attached to the control rod end. The #1 transmission (rebuilt by the previous owner) doesn't have it - the spares (stock) do. I just spent most of the evening tearing transmissions apart trying to get the spring out of a spare and into #1 (no luck yet).

What does this spring do? Looks like it would be for side tension. Bottom line - do I want it in or out?

If I should have it, it looks like the control rod end has to come off in order to get it off/on. That end is held on with a roll pin, and I can only get at one end of the pin. Is there sufficient clearance to drive the roll pin out the other side?

Once I get it in, how should it be positioned/attached?

Thanks,

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Marty Doane
ITS RX7
CenDiv WMR