G.T. Fieros

Was heading to Canadian Tire today to get a muffler hanger, shifted in to 2nd, and then there was no resistance on my shifter.... thought it had popped off the tranny end, it's been doing that (Rodney was going to send me a new cable end to fix it). Unfortunately it was worse than that, there was no movement at all from the shifter end to the transmission. I manually put it into 2nd gear and drove home at about 40 kph (luckily I was only about 5KM away) rather than wait for a tow truck. Pulled the pin off the shifter end, gave it a wee tug and...... CRAP!!! Looks like I'm outta commission until I can get a new cable

looks familiar, I went through three selector cables like that till I bought a set of Rodney Dickmans cables, haven't broken one since.

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87 GT 3400 Green
88T-top: WIP

I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune. You must've been speed shifting! LOL. Was there any resistance following up to the breaking point? Perhaps a prior indicator something was not right?

There did seem to be some 'catching' when I was going into gear, but it could have been my imagination, not used to the new tranny, or a combination of both. Either way I'm still trying to source a new cable, but it looks like I may have found a place in California that will make me one.

Honestly, Rodney is the way to go for cables, I've never heard any problems with his cables at all. I have them in my GT.