Advance Adapter shift linkage woes
I dropped the motor back in but I can't take it off the hoist until I put the tranny and tcase in. I bought my Advanced Adapter for the tcase to NV4500 from Georg @ Valley Hybrids and I didn't get the shift bracket nor spacer. Or any kind of instructions. He didn't think it came with it, which it does. I said no biggie, I'd make my own. It didn't work so I thought their bracket had some kind of angle to it that I didn't get down... Figured screw it, time is money. So I called up AA and talked to a few different people, Jim and Matthew mainly. I got the bracket shipped to me.. Still had to pay $24 for something I already paid for but never got. Not too happy about that. But OK fine. Once I received it and got the same results on the tcase shifter position, I called trying to get some idea on how the hell it is suppose to install properly. Jim said he would have to research and call me back. When he did, he had no clue where the space is to be used (that's lovely.. it is THEIR kit right?) and was told to cut 0.5" off the large threaded side. Did that and tried every angle, used shims.. Looks like this with the bracket from them on:
And this is the issue... the piece that is suppose to go into the notch is too far out.
And jacking with it.. I ended up, because it was too far out, breaking the little plastic square against the notch! You can see I sorta stuck it back on above. But below shows it

Has anyone had any luck or know anyone who has used this adapter and maybe could tell me what I'm doing wrong? It's the only thing keeping me from having it all back in the rig.

If all else fails I'll build a metal piece that extends it. But it is suppose to not require that. Going to call them tomorrow again and see what happens.