Transmission stuck in gear

[northerngmc]

I dedided to take the column out of my 69 GMC today. The truck has a 3 speed manual, column shift, aka 3 in the tree. The lever was getting very stiff to pull back to get into first or reverse.

The afternoon went well and we took the column out, pour varsol through it and watched all sorts of stuff come out, blew it out, wiped it off and sprayed it with graphite. It wants to go back and forth nicely now.

The problem came on reassemble. I went to reconnect the shifter rods and the front rod, which is connect to the back output on the transmission is stuck in the up position and the transmission seems to be stuck in gear. Not sure how it happened either but I was able to move the shifter rods up and down while I was reassembling.

So I tried crawling under and shifting by hand and I was unable to move either. I tried with the clutch in, and then had a friend rock the truck back and forth while laying under and trying to move the shifter rod.


Any suggestions?

Could it be stuck between gears or somehow if I moved both shifter rod in a way they shouldn't be able to be moved could it be stuck in two gears at once?