Then I figured it out pretty quickly, that not "EVERYTHING" was done: I forgot to bolt that bracket into place... That bracket has quite a bit of function: it positions the cable between the gear-sector in the car and the gear-sector outside of the transmission under the car properly. As it turned out, it had quite a bit of a disasterous effect, forgetting that: Without that bracket being attached, the cable dislodged from the gear selector in the car, so that moving it thru the J-gate had no ef