Help identify this little piece... fell from shifter?

[Son of Marty]

First step, determine if you have the old or new style linkage, unless you know the whole history of your car you need to crawl under and look. Then order the whole kit from one of our fine vendors Make sure it has the rubber mounts that go between the trans case and the shift tower, you'll need some loctite for those bolts and the guibo bolts and also order new nuts for the guibo bolts, thats all I have for now, I'm sure others will throw in here.

[bergie33]

@Sean Murphy, I hope this is not the identity of the piece you found, since it is supposed to reside on the inside of your transmission.  I was perusing EBay and came upon this item and thought, wow, that looks like Sean's mystery piece.  Not sure if that's it, but it bares close resemblence.

 

Says its a "stopper" for the transmission.  Part# 23231630123

 

BMW ORIGINAL NEW Set of 4*Stoppers 1502 1602 2002 23231630123

WWW.EBAY.COM

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GENUINE NEW BMW Set of 4 Stoppers. Our goal is to make you happy and we will make every reasonable attempt to resolve your issue.

 

[Sean Murphy]

8 minutes ago, bergie33 said:

since it is supposed to reside on the inside of your transmission

 

@bergie33, thank you for that moment of panic!  Ha!  Thankfully it looks different than that.  I may have to change my evening plans and crawl under the car so we can solve this mystery!
In addition to competing priorities, I've been trying to decide what I'd like to use to elevate the car in the garage for this, and future inevitable work.  I'm leaning towards a new floor jack and a set of Race Ramp Wheel Cribs to add 10" of clearance.  Maybe I'll do that shopping tonight instead 🙂

 

-Murph

[bergie33]

Just now, Sean Murphy said:

 

@bergie33, thank you for that moment of panic!  Ha!  Thankfully it looks different than that.  I may have to change my evening plans and crawl under the car so we can solve this mystery!
In addition to competing priorities, I've been trying to decide what I'd like to use to elevate the car in the garage for this, and future inevitable work.  I'm leaning towards a new floor jack and a set of Race Ramp Wheel Cribs to add 10" of clearance.  Maybe I'll do that shopping tonight instead 🙂

 

-Murph

Oh, good.

 

Maybe take a few close up pic from different straight-on angles with it sitting on a piece of white paper.  Then use Google image search and see what comes up.  I tried based on your original pic, but I got every little black thing held between two fingers to come up.

[Sean Murphy]

Well, still no idea what the mystery piece is.

@bergie33, I took your advice and took some additional pics to see what Google could come up with, and the closest matches were either a carp fishing sinker or an ancient Asian artifact.  

Anyway, I still have small leaks to contend with but replacing these two buggers with the ones from the Blunttech early rebuild kit made a HUGE difference.  There's very little play left at this point.

For anyone considering them, the RaceRamps two-piece wheel cribs worked out great. 

(note: I added some jack-stands under the front before crawling under)

-Murph