A855 - 5 Speed
5th is on the same rod as reverse.
5th is up to the right, reverse down.
I don't know if that answers the question, so forgive my ignorance.
Yeah, that’s what I was asking. I’m trying to picture it in my mind...but to do 5th on the reverse shaft...I’m trying to think how he stuck 5th there.
At any rate, 4th is still direct (I think it is) and that is probably the same 3-4 slider, hub, struts and springs as a Chrysler box.
Do the struts not cam over and basically lock the slider into gear until it’s shifted back out of 4th? Thinking out loud here.
3 and 4 uses the same slider, hub and struts and it doesn’t pop out of third. So that leaves either the 4th gear cone is machined incorrectly (again, I’m kinda guessing without seeing the gear box) the struts on the 4th gear side are machined incorrectly (although I’m not sure how that could even happen, and how one or two struts could be machined wrong on one side and they all happen to be assembled with the incorrect rly machined side to 4th gear) or maybe the hub is incorrectly machined on the 4th gear side only, and that doesn’t let the strut engage the slider enough to keep it in gear.
I’m just spitballing here. But usually any popping out of gear is strut/hub related.
I’ll have the cover off my 4 speed tomorrow and I’ll look at it to refresh my memory because I ain’t seen the guys of one in awhile.
I can’t imagine a scenario where that gear box can’t be fixed unless something is horribly wrong.