As the title says. My shift lever is stiff, and stiff enough that i blew the cable apart at the bracket at the tranny trying to force it to shift. Cable wasn't bound up or anything, had a nice angle and curvature to its pathway from shifter to lever, fluid level was fine. I took the pan off last night just to kinda poke around a bit, and after studying the lever and the rooster comb looking gear that locks each shift position, i noticed the resistance on the spring (really a metal bar with a roller on the end) was really tight. If i leveraged it a small amount it drastically changed how stiff the lever was.

so tldr, can that metal bar providing resistance and positional lock to the lever have its firmness adjusted? Eveeything else seems fine.

edit: i got to thinking right after i posted, i could just put a washer under the bolt holding that metal bar to the valve body and that would relieve the excess pressure without modifying anything at all, i could return to factory design if necessary. What do you guys think?

 

Somehow put this in the wrong section, reposting in thw right section sorry.