tranny in gear or out of gear on install?

[BigIsland]

just put the 5spd tranny in on my 94 4x4 4.0 and can't get the thing to shift. seems as though it's stuck in a gear but has play like its in neutral?. doesn't want to shift into any gear.

i believe i had it in gear on install to rotate the input shaft, was i suppose to keep it in neutral? or either ways fine?

haven't fully bleed the system yet, could that be a problem also?

Thanks for the help!.

 

[thegoat4]

Your shift lever is probably not installed correctly. That's a common error.

 

[BigIsland]

fixed the problem, used a screw driver to put it back into neutral. pops came by and had the magic touch, haha,