Wasn't a lot of dirt in the grease? When I took mine off it had some debris in it, I just cleaned it out and re-packed it before shipping it to its new owner. Good luck though, it definately is a quality shifter especially considering the price
um seems like it was deleted. anyways i said i put in tranny fluid until it came out of the shifter area, powershifted and blew my tranny up. lots of people believed me .