Hurst Shifter - Bent Lever?

Looking at my first Hurst shifter. It's mated to an A833 on my 1974 Challenger. Looks like the reverse lever is bent to me. Compared it to as many pics on the net I could find, but since this is my first one I'm looking for confirmation.

Also, I took the clip off the reverse rod at the shifter lever and I'm not able to pull the rod out of the lever. Should this come right out?

Larger picture, I'm having issues with the shift getting stuck in second gear. I'm able to reset and align all the levels and it frees up and I can drive the car again for a bit...

Thanks,

-Rob

Yeah, that lever does look bent; can't recall a Hurst shifter lever at the tower end where the bends viewed that way were not all at 90 degrees.
Had an 833 that would jam up similar to yours: I loosened the side cover bolts, pushed the side cover upwards with a prybar and re-tightened the bolts, and that fixed it.

Am I going to be able to bend that back while it's still on the car?

As mentioned in the initial post, I can't seem to get the rod off the level after taking out the clip. Any tricks to this? Seems like it should just pull out. Wondering if the bend is preventing it...

Thanks,

-Rob

I'd pull the shifter, disassemble, clean, grease, and straighten out that lever. Take pictures of the different levers and plates and their orientation as they come out during dis-assembly. They are pretty easy to do. You can also add a washer or two in the stack thru the large pin that everything pivots on to help remove some of the sideways slop in the gate.

Looks like the lever was bent to make the shift rod work.

Looks like an A/B shifter not an E. E will have 7180 on reverse arm (the one that is bent). A/B will have 6353.

there is a burr of some sort hanging up the rod from coming out of the lever or a part of the clip that can't be made out in that blurry picture.

Either way pull the shifter out of the car and go from there .

Here's a slightly better picture of the debacle...

You should be able to put a long flat blade screw driver in there and just pop it out .

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Here's a slightly better picture of the debacle...

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Not really, you probably need to go with decaf.