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The transaxle is selected by a cable. The driver's selector connects to one end, and the transmission shift lever connects to the cable between the transaxle and the firewall below and to the center of the brake master cylinder. The cable comes through the lower firewall and is surrounded by a grommet that seals the opening. It is best seen from under the car, but it is visible from the top if you know what you are looking for. There is lots more room to see it with the air intake ducting removed. There is a delrin bushing between the cable end, which has a hole in it, and the lever, which has a rod sticking out with a retaining clip hole drilled through it. The retaining clip looks like a short, large hairpin. When you remove it by simply puhing it out of the hole with a screwdriver, the cable comes off. The crumbled white plastic-looking thing that comes out is the bushing. Yours may not even be there. You can see that the hole in the cable end is larger than the rod it fits over. The bushing takes up that space. With the bushing gone, there is some small amount of cable movement before the rod on the linkage moves and clicks into a different gear. This is what gives you the shifter imprecision. I found a substitute laying around the garage, but I don't know what it was from. It just needs a cylinder-shaped object with a flange on one end of it that is of the correct diameter and thickness.
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