Help - Adjusting ‘67 904 console floor shifter

To get mine adjusted, I removed the console to get to the upper part of the linkage. There was lots of slop that a few, properly spaced washers mostly eliminated. Allowed me to see where the button would need to be adjusted to to shift the gears.

Following the shop manual procedure and advice from the folks here, I then put the shifter in park and got underneath, again, for the umpteenth time.

I confirmed it was in P by trying to push it (by hand) and then starting it. Moved the shifter through gears and feeling it engage. Back to P… nothing. It now indicated that R was P. It would start in N, which was really P.

Back underneath, getting ready to fabricate a new lower shifter rod, when I noticed the shift lever on the trans was not in the P position when the shifter was.

I figured out I could push the trans shift lever further back than necessary.

I disconnected the lower shifter rod, pushed the trans shift lever as far back as possible, then brought the shift lever forward till it clicked.

Lowered the car and confirmed it was in P, then connected the shifter rod with shifter in P.

Put the car though all shifts. Success!

It still has some old gremlins. P is fine. Got to N and push shifter forward for R. Go to 2, then push forward for D. It’s easier than it sounds.

Anyhow, that’s how I got mine adjusted.