touche

 

Sorry, but there is a difference between replacing something the right way and with the right parts (especially when it's just as easy or easier to get the right ones), as opposed to jury rigging it and create another potential situation, JMHO, so whatever. Good luck.

 

No duct tape on this one guys. I want to fix with the right way, as in with parts that fit. The truck isn't stranded on the side of the road or anything.

 

Good call, now make a few more posts and head over to the TOTM thread and vote for the white truck.

 

Ok. I hope I don't hose this up.

 

Cotter pins aren't exactly jury rigging, everyone has a dozen or so on their vehicles.
I bought my truck in 2002, it has had a cotter pin in the gear shift linkage at least since then, it is still there, and I have no problems with the gear shift.
I presume that, some time before I got the truck, the factory setup had failed, and someone just stuck a cotter in it, and there it still sits.
Almost any part which lasts 7 years is a success in my book.
I don't feel compelled to run out and buy the correct factory clip/bushing or whatever it is - Consequently, I wouldn't advise that anyone else do that either, though if they want to, more power to em.