The two tiny bushings arrived from Van's so I installed both of those on the pilot and passenger side. Slid heat shrink over the wires and shrunk the base where the wires come out of the stick and ziptied them down as instructed. I stripped the wires and added DSUB pins. But I stopped after trying to get them into the connector. The wires are so thin (24g) that if you try to push the wire to get the DSUB into the connector and locked, the wire just folds over. So I have to do some research to see the best way to do this without screwing up the pins and wire.
Meanwhile, I learned from Josh at SteinAir that the reason I couldn't find the AV-6000 is because they already wired it into the harness. So it's in the big bundle of wires.
I put my glasses down at the hangar somewhere and now can't find them. Cleaned the hangar. Nothing. So now I get to buy a new pair of glasses.