Thanks to your posts, I was able to fix the loose auto transmission shift linkage on my 1993 244. I bought a bag of auto trans bushings from FCP. Can't figure out where they all go but one looked like the right one to put where there was only metal to metal with a lot of play - right where the linkage on the arm out of the transmission. With dirt falling in my face, luckily I followed someone's tip of putting silicone on the part because it still took me about 15 minutes of fiddling and using pliers to fit the bushing in the hole before pinning the linkage back on.

Now here comes the warming part: I foolishly thought that the car would stay in Park, like you can't shift out of Park from inside the car. But apparently you can shift gears from under the car - DUHHH. So at one point, trying to plier the bushing into the arm, I popped it out of park and the car moved. I think I set a record for getting out from under the car. Luckily I had the tires blocked, not like the time the car rocked, fell off the original jack bending it and grinding the rotor sans wheel into the street. So the car only moved probably less than an inch. But it took about 5 minutes for my heart beat to return to normal.
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1993 240 Classic; 1992 240; 1997 850 GLT; Mitsubishi 4 cyl.