did a little picking today, found a coil and brake fluid resivior, now if i could just find the brake hose i have lost, getting closer and closer, need to figure out what to use for turn signals

need to figure out what to use for turn signals

Left hand, middle finger..... 

cut the drivers rotted floor pan out, filled the trans shifter shaft off where it looked like someone had dropped it and hooked the shift linkage up, no shifty, not good

IT IS STUCK, I DOES NOT WANT TO MOVE AT ALL

CRAP,the shift rod was not installed when it got the car,  the shifter and rod move fine

CRAP,the shift rod was not installed when it got the car,  the shifter and rod move fine

Does the selector shaft ( in the nose cone) move at all ?   This is what Rick is talking about doing with the vice grips. Its hard to ID which rod or which shifter you are talking about. Some people have all kinds of names for parts like a dololly, thingofagig, whatchacallit. More info please.

i am talking about the part in the trans,  i had to fill the connecter coming out of the nose cone because it looked like it had beed dropped on the ground and mushroom, but there was no evidence that the trans had been out of the car, so i am wondering if some one was smacking it with a hammer

Right name please. the connector thing you are talking about is the shift Selector shaft. If that shaft was that beat up that bad is not a good thing. The tranney could be lock in  two gears, selector could be badly bent or broken inside the nose cone, Broken shift fork,(internal) and then some Dude took a hammer to it thinking it would free it up. The bottom line is the tranney has to come out and take the cone off and see what happened if you can. This a IRS tranny right ?