Anyone else's Shift Linkage keep falling off? Any solutions?

[Gwolf]

True story...... when I was in high school, I practically lived in the Vocational Agriculture Shop or the Wood Shop with the tools for the woodworking classes. Learned to weld in the 8th grade watching the people in the shop classes, and the instructor knew me, so he showed me the basics. I was in the welding shop one day when I was in high school and a guy in the same grade that had a Super 90 Honda came in there and asked me to weld the kick starter to the shaft. I looked at it and the splines were stripped. I told him if I welded it to the shaft, he would not be able to get the side cover off if he needed to. He told me to go ahead and weld it, because if he needed to get the side cover off, he would just bring it back to me and I could get it off for him. I did put a good spot weld on the outside and had him run water on it soon as I broke the arc. Far as I know it was still welded when he traded it in on a 350.