Ok I already have shifter out and I cannot get the grooves to line up. Like I said this booger is jammed in there. I dont wanna drop trans yet til I get it unjammed/out of gear, cuz its held in a great position for that as is. If I had it on the floor I'd have to worry about balancing it while trying to get it outta gear. I was wondering if I drained fluid and took the pto cover plate off I could use a screw driver to wiggle gears around and try un jamming it from the bottom end since the top cap cant come off u less you have it halfway in reverse. But I'm not familiar with jimmying around in there to unjam gears, or if that's even the way I should go about getting it unjammed. I just dont know how to get past this snag.... seems like the shift fork is really caught up in there.
