727 3rd gear feels more like a down shift

Mike Alexander said
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Being the first year for both the car and myself, there's been steady improvement. I expect to find a couple more tenths and a few more MPH next year. I'm good to run 10.0 so some room to play.
The car will be losing about 120 Lbs over the course of the winter, which is also going to help. Track elevation is 1800' and air has usually been around 3500 + so the guys with weather stations say.
Today I swapped out the old shift cable and that bugger was stiff overall and worse in certain spots. That along with the loose shift arm likely created the same problem that Dgibby started this thread over.
Will add some fuel to the car (drained for winter) tomorrow, up with the back wheels and run in through the gears. If it bangs into high gear then I'll know it's a fix. Before this problem started when going into 3rd it was a instant solid shift. I suspect that with the reverse manual valve body the shift cable adjustment has to be absolutely dead on otherwise a problem like this could show up. We'll find out.. Stay tuned.

New cable - routes around the right side - no more burnt cable on this Mopar.
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Fired up the Mopar today and ran it through the gears. FIX! Pounds 3rd gear every time. The problem had to be a combination of the stiff cable, adjustment, and the shift arm moving a little on the valve body shaft.
My condition ended up being the same as Dgibby, who started this thread and I'm glad I came to FABO and found it.
It's obvious that when you have the reverse pattern valve body that the shift cable adjustment is correct. It's probably the shift spool valve (for lack of better term) not being exactly in it's right position must allow pressure to get somewhere that it shouldn't be. We'll know next racing season if the fix shows up on the time slip. I'm hoping it does! Thanks again!