As I suspected using the gear shifter instead of just manually turning the cam made no difference. still no neutral.
Is there anyone on here that has done this before and can just say "here's how you line up the Cam for rebuilding". I'm fairly confident that the cam isn't lined up, or the transmission gears aren't in the proper order, or something isn't right, and the manual does nothing to help with any of these issues.
I'm going to need someone to skype with me, or find someone in Colorado that is close to help me. Me doing it by myself, then asking questions which are going to be impossible to understand what i'm asking w/out seeing it, isn't going to work.
do I have any options here? or is my only option to give to to a local suzuki dealer and hope they can figure it out.
sigh.