brianj5600 said:My guess is that if you have it bound up inside. Not a big deal, just get under it and try to move one of the linkage bars. Push forward and back, then try the other one. One of them should move and free things up. Worn out or misadjusted shifters can cause this. Sometimes lazy shifting. I had a car that did the same thing. Remember 5 or 10 years ago at Sonoma, the nascar guys would hang up in a gear, they would pit jack up the car and do the same thing.
D.Hearne said:What he did to get it stuck in second, was he shifted partially into reverse then went to second. If he'll get under the car ( I got good at this 20 years ago) and remove the reverse or second gear linkage rod, he'll be able to "unhang it" My kid didn't believe me when I told him this was possible, but after doing it a couple times, he's a believer. I have found that this usually happens when you're trying too hard to think about what gear you want. If you'll practice, this problem will solve itself and you'll be a genuine Toploader expert when you can crawl under the car in the dark without a light and remove and reinstall the shifter rods,bushings and pins just by feel
Depends on the shifter you're using, some are set up so that reverse is over to the left and up and some are over to the left and down. It can be either way, depends on how the lever bolts to the rev on the side of the main case ( up or down) With the Hurst I'm using in my Ranger's Toploader, reverse is over and up . I believe ( it's been a LONG while too) that with the stock Ford shifter, reverse is over and down. Even with new steel bushings and linkage rods and a new shifter, it's still possible to hang a Toploader between two gears. It used to puzzle the **** out of me , what I did to do it, and it wasn't until a couple years ago when I put the 4 speed into the Ranger and my kid was drivin it that I realized what took place to hang it. Every single time, it's from shifting partially into rev, then going to first or second.65fsbkhipo said:Ford shifters were notorious for locking into gear.
DH...Shifting partially into reverse would assume your moving the shifter 'up' in reverse while shifting 'down' to second in a four speed. I think the shifter rod bushings are shot and are getting sloppy. I had the same problem until I changed them. Shifting a solid trans and shifter unit wont do that. Check the shifter stop bolts!
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