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in the last 3 or 4 weeks my shifter has slipped off the rubber piece it slids onto a couple times. easy enough to slide back on with a little push, but troublesome none the less.
I don't see any sort of set screww or anything. so how can I keep this from being an issue in the future. Don't wannt glue it in case I ever need to take things apart to repair the tranny or something, but hving it come loose going down the road n't a good thing.

After market? other tricks/tips?

If it's just a plain metal post, I'd say tap the darn thing and run a matched thread sleeve up into the shifter handle.

Yeah, there is metal under that stupid rubber penis thing... but you'd have to get the rubber off (tried that a long while ago, annoying) and IIRC, it's not even (i.e., not conducive to being threaded). I found it much easier to swap in the relevant bit of shift linkage from a later model outback/legacy etc. with the solid shift lever (no stupid rubber penis). Takes about an hour and you don't have to mess around with that thing anymore.

ok. so, havng only the one subaru myself, what years started coming with the solid shift lever.

Home Depot ~2" wood knob for drawer handle. ~$1. Paint, rubber coat, or stain as wanted. Drill the already pilot-holed base to a size just less than the diameter of the threads on the shift rod (don't remember the size, but it's pretty standard SAE), use a little olive oil for lube, and work it onto the threads like you would tap a hole. And it even feels better in the hand.

I think hes talking about the shift rod itself with the metal sleeve that slides over the rubber penis thing. I don't remember what years, but I got the solid one from a ~97 outback.

You probably could get yours to stick OK if you sanded the inside of the sleeve a bit, then gooped it up with some contact cement and slid it over the rubber thing while it was wet.