[alanwoodieman]

depending upon the year of the shift "tower" you may not have a reverse lock out lever that is pulled up. during ww2 the army had ford remove the lock out lever. we recently had a 4 speed in a 39 lock up in the shift tower--rusty-crusty, cleaned all this up and would still not shift into 3/4, turned out the gear was frozen on the shaft in the trans