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Congrats on your purchase! Afraid I'm not familiar with that specific car.
Remove the console (typically two screws horizontally into the tunnel and two others into the floor through the console "wings," the work the shift boot out of the carpet (it's usually not mechanically attached) and up the lever. You'll see a large nut-like fitting that holds the shifter down -- unscrew that (large channel-lock pliers works for me) and pull the stick away.
There are two pins at the base of the stick that fit into slots in the transmission cover extension. Those slots wear with use and the whole thing becomes sloppy. The cover slots are not difficult to fix -- we'll come back to that if that's your problem -- but the transmission needs to come out of the car to do it.
Off the top of my head (I'm not 100% sure -- the E/ES is different from earlier models -- but I think there's also a plastic bushing in the rod the very end of the stick slides into. Those crack and fall out, leading to sloppy metal-to-metal contact where none should be. The bushing is available very inexpensively and replacement does not require removing the transmission.
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