First Gear Help

Hey George - this is an inland shifter not the one I had in the car prior to the tear down but one I bought at carlisle with a console shift handle cause Im gonna put a console in. When it was shifting thru all the gears outside of the car it was not connected to the engine yet.
I will say it was in much nicer/tighter shape than my original mechanism - I still have the original if I cant get this one working right though.
Bill