Continuing nut problem

I have not worked much on the car of late, but when I did, I concluded that the replacement nut that I bought is the wrong size. It turns out it is metric. I should have known that; everything else on the tranny is too and the instructions that came with the replacement arm even said it was a 14mm nut. Oh well, simple enough to fix, right?

It turns out that Advance Auto Parts did not have any metric nuts that big. (They did read my check engine code on the Passat and I got away without spending a dime once we figured out that it was just a bad reading in the rain that falsely said the engine temperature was too high). So off to Home Depot, which only carried 12mm and 16mm. So off to Napa which had 14mm, but the wrong thread size. Grrrr. I was thinking I might have to go to Fastenal and buy a big package just to get the one that I need, but then the Napa guy suggested that I go to a tranny service place down the street and see if they had one they could sell me.

I went to Austin Transmission and talked to Jeff who took the part with him into the shop and came back 2 minutes later with a nut on it and said "Have a nice day". That was nice, even if it only costs a buck.

Eventually I got home and tried to figure out how to put everything back together, now that I have the right parts. I spent a half hour or so, but could not figure out how to get the interior linkage back in place. It fell out when I finally removed the old nut, and it is not exactly straight forward to get it back together. Nor are there any instructions for that piece, since it should not have fallen out to begin with. It wouldn't have except the tranny is in place and I am working upside down. I did find an old picture I took back on April 8th that seems to show what it should look like, so tomorrow I will tackle it again.