just carefully lower the bellhousing down. Make sure you get the race into the right slot w/o putting too much pressure on it. once that's in, just look inside and see what catches until you get it almost closed (like you said you had it). Then, all I had to do was wiggle the shift levers slightly and the case popped closed. Those last few shafts taht have to pop in will all move if you wiggle the shift levers. One of them moves a shaft up and down along its axis. The other moves several of the shafts around just a little (move that one).

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