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Just to follow-up: It was the reverse lockout stop that broke. Replaced with p/n 4490314 (pricey piece of plastic btw). Replacement was easy 'when you know how' and for that, here are the instructions: http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/bb/NG900/index.html?bID=111429
and repeated here:
I bought P/N 4490314 at my local Saab dealer. $25.96.
See how they are?
On the drive home, at the stoplights, I plotted my strategy. A piece of plastic had broken. Beneath the Shift Lever Boot, in the center console,there is a white plastic nest for the shifter ball. There's a plastic stop thing that lives there, at least until an evil Parking Va (r) let tries to jam the stick shift into reverse and breaks it. It sits on the passenger side (in NA) of the shift control thing, and it has a leg on it, not unlike the extended "foot" of a clam rendered in a hard nylon-plastic.There are three tabs on the white plastic thing that holds the shifter mechanism. Thingy. Stop me if I get too technical.
It's the circular thing that surrounds what would be the drop of milk if that were one of those stop motion photographs. You've got the milk drop, which would be the ball on the end of the shift stick, and the "crown" dealy where the "milk drop," which is the ball makes the "Milk" splash up, like one of those Burger King Crowns.
You follow me?
In order to get the Plastic Reverse Lock Detent Doohicky, which looks like one of those long-legged Star-Wars monster things that Luke flew between the legs of (or "of which legs Luke flew between.") in one of the Star Wars movies, I forget which, but it only has one leg, into the Shift Stick base thing, you have to undo two of the three tabs which hold it into the Shift Linkage Housing between the front seats.
How clear is that?
Step 1: Pull up shift boot by pulling it up off the plastic retaining ring in the console.
Step 2: Push in tabs on the Shifter Ball Ring (Plastic, I'm makin' stuff up, here.) at 1 O'clock and 5 O' clock.
Step 3: Curse, briefly, because you cracked the plastic housing. (or not)
Step 4: Gently rotate the white plastic collar ANTI-CLOCKWISE, (if you have a digital watch, you're on your own....) slide the TOP of the part over the plastic collar and slip the FOOT of the new part into the little slot in the base of the collar, rotate the whole assembled unit CLOCKWISE (look at the clock on your dash...) and snap it all back in place.
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