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Maybe even turn the car off before that

With the drums off that's what I'd do, as you know it can still be turning a bit in neutral. Easy to get fooled since the car ain't moving your brain automatically thinks it's OK to move the selector to a different position. Yes you'd have to have alot more than 3/4" end play for that to be the problem like it was in my case & in diagnosing that problem I noticed that the yoke had to be engaged quite aways in on the output shaft spline till it felt solidly engaged which I thought was strange. I think that was because not all of the inside length of the yoke is splined & that distance varied from yoke to yoke. Holler how things go.

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