1969 chevelle shifter help or Question?

[jasonL78]

So a friend of mine bought a nice 69 chevelle 396 4sp car and is having problems with the original Muncie shifter & linkage. I have never worked on 69 shifter with the reverse lock out rod. So I have a couple of questions. This shifter has a tone of play which I don't think is correct. I tried to line it up the notches which were way off and got it to shift but it gets stuck in reverse once in a while. I advised him to change it over to a Hurst shifter gate assembly. So my question is does the hurst shifter use the reverse lock out rod? I turned him onto the kit Ground Up has with the muncie handle on the hurts gate assembly. Anyone have it in there car?