SM 465 stuck in 4th

[OrrieG]

When I was in college I lent my truck to a guy and forgot to tell him to always keep pressure down when shifting, the pins were good but the housing that hooks to them sheared off and I had little time and money to fix it. About an hour later I get a call in a blind panic, he had shifted into 4th and pulled the handle out of the trans. This was long before cell phones, he was calling from a phone booth, I told him to just shove it back in pointed to where 4th would be and it would be fine. Took him a couple of tries but made it back to my place. No one ever asked to borrow it again after that. I eventually just ran some wire of strapping over the top and around the trans and drove it for another 5 years until converting to the current drive train.