I was driving up I-5 back to Portland and my shifter came off while changing gears in traffic. I pulled over and took it all apart with my lucky-to-always-be-around 10mm wrench right then.

Drove it home with being able to look at the ground and the shifter spinning and sliding freely.

What do I need to affix it to the spindle? Was it glued on or was that broken rubber gasket holding it in place?

 

that's a new one on me... maybe mazda will replace it, worth a shot. otherwise it's AFE SS time!

 

Likely a lot of stock shifters around.....( i have 3 )

 

After some of the guys at the service dept. of Royal Moore and I did some searching through the service manuals and found nothing. They popped open another 8 to find out how it was actually attached. Lucky for me, it'll take the cost of a tube of JB Weld to fix it as its normally just glued in place

 

the whole rubber isolater came off the shift rod? AFE time

 

I have a stock one if you want to buy it.

 

this happened to me... lol.. i just went ahead and bought the afe