another problem...2 in 2 days..gotta love the SHO

[shooff1994atx]

Alright..so i was out testing my car today..to see if my hesitation problem went away..i couldnt tell you if it did because another problem arose...i was getting my car up to speed, i was at about 65MPH and i went to shift into 5th when all of a sudden my shifter was able to shift side to side up and down round and round. my car is stuck in 4th gear. i can "shift" from 3rd to 4th but it isnt going out of 4th gear, it just moves freely...i think i have the part..im not sure..when i bought the car there was a cable in the trunk product number e9dz-7a477-a..i looked up the model number and it came up as a left to right cable for the shifter. now the question..is this the part i need? or is it something more major? man i love these sho's..thought a good running sho for 850 was too good to be true..haha..

 

[firstgen89sho]

that sounds like it, I have had that happen to my car as well, then I replaced it with a rod shifter, best thing that I did, especially with the Jose SHOrt shifter

 

[shooff1994atx]

and yes...the black round platic piece that connects to the shifter is broken off..and i do have the part for it..now how would i go about installing it?

this is the new cable.

 

[shooff1994atx]

alright..i tore apart the center console to take a look at the cable. looks like the guy who owned it before me had the same problem cus it was zip tied, and i see people do that as a quick fix. so how do i replace this cable? i got lucky i dont have to buy one because there was a brand new in the trunk still in the packaging.

 

[TheSHODown]

Well what my friend and I did to his car when his cable shifter went bad, was go to the junkyard buy a rod shifter for 17.50 and tear out his cable shifter and replace it with the rod; it really wasn't too hard to do.

 

[shooff1994atx]

id rather just keep the shifter cable in, since i have the cable already..no sense in buying other stuff when it isnt necessary..but i hear what you guys are saying with the cables..its crap..the rod will not snap, but ive got the cable, so might as well put that in. but when i pulled the console and everything apart i noticed there was nothing to keep the ball connected to the black plastic ring..am i missing something?

 

[Mrhappytuzi]

the Rod shifters get sloppy after awhile too...

 

[DeepPower]

id rather just keep the shifter cable in, since i have the cable already..no sense in buying other stuff when it isnt necessary..but i hear what you guys are saying with the cables..its crap..the rod will not snap, but ive got the cable, so might as well put that in. but when i pulled the console and everything apart i noticed there was nothing to keep the ball connected to the black plastic ring..am i missing something?

Ah, I've got the same problem, I can't see how the ball is connected to the plastic ring. I've rigged up a temporary fix but I'm wondering how this thing is supposed to attach in the first place.

 

[rubydist]

iirc, there is the typical little ball on the shifter and a socket on the cable that fits over the ball.

 

[shomuchfaster89]

id rather just keep the shifter cable in, since i have the cable already..no sense in buying other stuff when it isnt necessary..but i hear what you guys are saying with the cables..its crap..the rod will not snap, but ive got the cable, so might as well put that in.

You've got the cable... if you get the updated shosource cable shifter fixes, you won't have to worry about any of that breaking again. Less work and money to buy the cable fixes than getting a rod shifter out of another sho and making it fit where a cable shifter was. Just a thought.

 

[sperold]

My best shifting SHO is a 90 with the cable shifter. The cables are really expensive, so if you have them, it would be wise to use them. The rod shifter models are good too, but it is not a night and day difference in performance, neither are wonderful.

 

[SHOdded]

Any way to use an early '90s Saturn shifter instead? Those worked automagically!

 

[rubydist]

the shifting issues are really due to the transmission, not the cables or rod shifter, so cobbling up some other cable doesn't address the real issue. All those Hondas that shift like butter use cables too, but its not that they have better cables, its that the trans shifts better...

 

[tery]

Mine is an automatic, but the shifter is very stiff and hard to move between gears. I thought it was maybe just a lubrication issue...thoughts

 

[Irish Pride]

You've got the cable... if you get the updated shosource cable shifter fixes, you won't have to worry about any of that breaking again. Less work and money to buy the cable fixes than getting a rod shifter out of another sho and making it fit where a cable shifter was. Just a thought.

I don't think he cares anymore. This thread was over 6 years old before it got bumped. Start new threads.