New Owner of 450 H.O Utility

Recently pick up a 2018 450 H.O Utility. I plan on using it to get around some hunting property and some trail riding on trips. Already ordered A-Arm guards at the suggestion of my friend and a quick search on the internet which brought me here. I plan on doing the 3 headlight mod this week with a relay off the battery while i run some other switches for aux power in the future.

Had one little issue already. while I was just taking it for some laps around the house to break it in. The linkage from transmission lever decided to come apart. I went to put it into N and the lever went slack and heard something hit the driveway. it was the plastic L shaped bracket that connects the lever to the rod with the 90 deg bend. I opened up the side and put it back together after molding the heat shield back to the body piece. I was wondering if there was anything else that should be holding that linkage together besides the plastic bracket. It looks like the heat shield just got in the way and caused it to bind. if anymore pictures are needed or anyone has a suggestion of where to post this, let me know.

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