Linkage adjustment

[therebel19]

After flooding the transmission and several flushes later the oil looks prefect however I was still getting a little bit of growl in reverse and low but not high. This actually has been on going for awhile and I could usually get it to stop doing it in low by shifting from reverse to low a couple of times. Also my L indicator light wouldn't always light up unless I shifted back and forth a couple of times. Anyways I had the center console out running some wiring and decided to adjust the shifting linkage. It probably had a 1/8 to 1/4 play when going into low. So far no more growl or other weird noises in low and reverse and the L and R light up every time. It also feels more solid going into low. I don't know how to explain but it always felt flimsy when going to low. Also it seems (this is probably all in my head) like there is more torque in low now.

[jimclemjr]

I would hypothesize that the torque feeling comes from an immediate surge because the gear teeth are fully messed as opposed to a few milliseconds of lag that it takes for the teeth to take up the slack and get moving. I assume that they are helical cut gears.