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Spent four hours today. First I tried the shifter in reverse with the bracket/gusset just tacked in place. It worked! So I pulled the assembly and finished welding the shifter gusset.

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I worked around it slowly so as to not warp it. Then I sliced the top of the tube and tapped it down to make it conform to the plate bit before welding across.

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Then I was going to weld the new part to both the old parts to make it one unit but decided not to do that when I went to test-fit it on as a one-piece item and could not get it to fit under the holy frame bit I made.

The rearward part that attaches to the end of the bracket is threaded for the little ball that the cable end grabs. The upper part of course fits over the stud on the transaxle and is notched to kind of "lock" in place against one of the ribs. So I guess that'll have to be good enough.

Painted it.

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Re-bent the reverse light bracket to tuck the light up, prepped and painted that too while I was at it. Also re-painted part of shifter bracket that got dinged-up from previous bending and bending back. I then reassembled all the bracketry and adjusted the shifter.

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All four forward gears work easy now and reverse is where it should be. 

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