I never opened up the TO bearing access. What I did was add 3 rubber washers below the clutch cable auto-adjuster. This confirmed that the actuation finger on top of the TO bearing must have shifted in the spline. I am now able to shift gears normally. Clutch never slipped so that gave me the idea of the rubber washer trick.
Next question. The clutch cable auto-adjuster looks okay but I was wondering if these things ever break and don't adjust after a while.
I'm still going to get the tranny properly repaired and I will give an update to what I had to replace if I remember.