So I am clear... Do the gears under the 5 speed main shifter lever have anything at all to do with shifting the truck from 1st to 2nd to 3rd etc?

If those gears are chewed up in the transfer case right under the 5 speed shifter lever would it cause it to grind the gears when up shifting or cause it to not down shift when in 2 wheel drive mode or 4x4 for that matter?

Its worth noting that when in 4x4 it does shift a little easier up thru the gears but still will not down shift hardly at all except into 2nd and only at very low speed and some applied force. You cannot down shift it into 1st at all unless you are completely stopped. You cannot down shift it into 3rd from 4th at all. If you try either of those you can feel the gears hitting and sending the sensation right up the shifter big time and it will rattle in your hand like its inches away. Its as if its happening right directly under the shifter.

I have no metal in the main tranny oil whatsoever but you could pan for gold in the transfer case oil and get rich each time you check it.

I notice that the main 5 speed shift lever has a plate with a fork that must slide something back and forth and it attaches to those gears in that transfer case right directly under the shifter itself so this is another reason why I figured that those gears affect shifting somehow and why I thought they were part of the transfer case or "transfer case extension gear housing".


If those gears in the transfer case have "no" impact on the regular shifting of the truck then I will dump the truck because I cannot afford a used tranny and a used transfer case and a carb that I am anticipating I will need to buy along with other minor repairs I need to make.

I have zero resistance now that the tranny oil and transfer case oil has been changed to synthetic but the grinding is still severe and no metal ever shows up in the main tranny oil ever. However if I pull the drain plug on the transfer case metal keeps showing up each time like its chewing the gears more and more each time it shifts. Why is it doing this if they are only reduction gears and have little impact on shifting?

If those gears I can see in the top of the transfer case right under both shift levers have no impact to speak of on shifting the transmission then why is it continuing to produce tons of metal shavings in the transfer case even though its rarely in 4x4 and why is there never any metal showing up in the main tranny oil?

If it was grinding at all in the tranny something would show up in that oil right? If it was grinding for 10 years it would come out looking like the transfer case oil and you could see the metal particles.

Does this manual tranny have a transmission fluid filter that may be catching the metal and making me think the fluid is clean? I have yet to remove the transmission oil pan to see if it has a filter. I only drained the fluid out of the drain plug in the middle of the transmission pan. As bad as it has been grinding I doubt any filter could have caught it all over the past 10 years and if it did the tranny filter would be plugged so bad the fluid would not circulate right and it would still show up in the oil when you drain it from the pan plug even if you do not change the filter or remove the pan. Right?

To make this easy because I am not to bright on understanding this I will just ask it this way to be 100% certain...... If I change the transfer case and it has all the reduction gears in it like the junk yard claims and they are all in top condition would it even be possible to completely solve "all" the up shifting issues I am having when trying to shift from 1st to 2nd to 3rd etc and could it also solve all my down shifting issues as well?

Even though you have tried to explain it and I cant get it I would just like to know if there is any circumstance under which the transfer case gear issues could cause shifting issues even though its not in 4x4 mode hardly ever?