How to adjust Muncie shifter ball?

[Denis]

This probably ranks pretty high up there in the "dumb question" ratings but I just gotta figure out how this works.



How the heck do you cinch up the shifter 'ball' when using a two-piece ball assembly? There's a chrome 'bottom half' that threads on before the black 'top half'. If I just tighten eveything up, the shift pattern is off. If I back off the top half to get the shift pattern to look right and then back off on the bottom half to cinch them together, then they both turn as one piece right back to where I was.

It's really driving me nuts. Short drive, I know, ha ha.

Anyone know the secret?