Hi all,
I installed a B&M shifter in my 2002 C4S a couple of months ago. Yesterday, while putting the car in reverse, something came loose and there was a lot of side to side movement of the shifter while in gear. I was still able to shift though. Today I took everything apart and found the problem.

There are 2 cables going to the shifter, blue and white. The white one has a ball pivot that snaps into the shifter. The blue one simply has a round base that attaches to the shifter. There is a washer that goes on here as well. The thing I can't figure out is what is supposed to keep the blue cable in place with the shifter? The washer (pictured below) had come off of mine, and I can put it back in, but is there supposed to be something there (like a nut or something) that prevents it from slipping off the shifter cable?

I know this is kinda confusing, so please see pics below. In the second pic, the blue cable is connected to the white "stub" coming off the shifter base. How does this stay on without slipping off the side?

thanks... josh


this is the piece from the shifter that is supposed to go into the link cables.



this is the linkage connected to the shifter, but not secured in anyway to the shifter (this is what i'm trying to figure out how it should be secured)



this is the washer that goes in between the linkage and the shifter.

 

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Read the link. Installed the EVO shift linkage on the oem shift first. Then when that was perfect the B&M was installed. Use the locking bridge to make sure the shift linkage was in a perfect position before the B&M install. There was no trial and error. A perfect install of both products.

 

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