If you leave it shifting hard - I believe you'll be promoting damage to the splines in the front planet gear assembly.

Take a look at this thread

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=299729

And follow the link in post one to see what happens if they "go"

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=297960

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!