Its the set up of the shifter. Pull the boot off to see what I mean. Our shifters arent directly connected to the trans, they are connected by cables. I bet if you put it in 5th theres little "slop" at all.
I have solid shift bushings and I have the same "slop"
automatic or manual whatever. The assembly is just mounted to the exhaust/drive shaft hump. its just your bushings that make it loose like that. You can tighten some of the bolts in there to clean up some of the play. Now if we were talking about a car where the shifter is directly mounted into the transmission then you might have some problems.
Remove boot, you will see the slop. now remove console, then shifter. My 16 you old rebuilt it with parts we had around the shop. Take you time. it's not hard. Two weeks later we put in a 5speed, but the point is shifter feels nice when the slop is gone. Do it.
My '86 Jeep Comanche would fall out of gear if I got off the throttle!!!
A little play never hurt anyone. I don't like mine too tight. =)
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