(Bumping this thread because I just had to do this)

There are two white plastic pieces of trim that clip to the front and back of the shifter shaft. Take those off, and you should be able to see the top of the reverse cable, and the hole the pin goes through. Get a paper clip or similar, run it through, and now you can pull it up to the level it should be. Pull it all the way up to allow reverse, and put it in reverse. You should then be good to go as the reverse cable will stay in place once in reverse.

Don't do what I did and run the punch pin ABOVE the cable. It needs to go a bit lower. If you do, the pin might go in a bit easier (in my case, quite a bit easier), and when you pull the gear leaver out of reverse THAT'S when the cable will fall. You won't know until its too late.

Avoid this by using a light behind the shifter so you can see when everything lines up, THEN punch in the pin. :thumbsup:

Very clever! On my install I needed to remove the entire shifter rod to get a good hammering position on the other side of the pin, but once the whole shifter is out you can easily move the reverse contraption up and down.

If I didn't suck so bad at hammering and using foreign objects as a "punch", I most likely would've had to do what you did.

Oh dude, this is a job where using the right tool is everything! I initially tried using an Allen key...just ended up bending it. Lol!

Gave up, went to Ace Hardware and bought the appropriate size punch. I also used the below setup the brace the shifter against the dash, including rags so it wouldn’t scuff anything.
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Bastard came out in LITERALLY less than 5 seconds after that.

Victory was mine, until I screwed it up and dropped the reverse cable. [emoji28]


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