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Mission Complete, so nice to have a solid shifter back .... Thank you-all for the advise and support.

Pin completed, cleaned up the shifter as the edges of the ball on the shifter were nasty due to the broken pin. Pin was turned from steel and then hardened and polished. Have to be careful with the hardening process because if its to hard it becomes brittle and may crack/fail. Heat soak prior...

Pulled the tower today and determined that my tower is a bit different than that described in the TM. There’s only 1 pin, and you have to pull the shifter out thru the bottom of the tower after removing the spring inside the tower. There is no twist off collar so that you can remove the shifter...

Bob I'm one cheap old S#B LOL ...will try the self abuse / self repair route 1st ..going to school and have access to lots of machines here like mills, lathes etc .... if that fails it will be a call to John at MM ... thanks for that suggestion :-)

That makes sense ..went thru the Trany TM, and the pin issue looked to be the most plausible ... had to take a trip to upper New York so I did not get the chance to pull the shifter yet, will do that after school today ...suspect that the pin is either broken or missing ... thanks for all the...

Well, I decided I need to take the gearshift assembly off tomorrow and take a peek .. My trany was rebuilt in Danang Vietnam in the 60s ...will post pics as I progress....

Have been using my 37 as a daily driver and its been a blast. She runs like a fine instrument and the positive comments and thumbs up I get every day make all the work on her restoration a real pay off ... folks just plai love tl see these beautiful old beasts on the streets. Spent yesterday...