I was afraid someone was going to say that. Let the fun begin.

Could the heat shied somehow be causing some binding. I bent it up trying to get it out of the way. Maybe I messed something up bending it back into place.

Also, rather than disconnect everything at the time, I was able to lift up the shift tower enough to pull the plastic and foam piece from the bottom of the shift tower. Could this be a source of the problem?

George Hodge New: Volvo S60R Old:2000 SVT Silver Frost 1188/2150 DMD, 75mm Pro-M, HPP rear strut tower bar Aussie 24mm sway bar (with boxed in subframe) BAT European Handling Kit, Brullen Y-pipe Performance Ford spherical bearing end links